The Loch Fergus.

This was another handsome barque of 845 tons, built at Glasgow by Henderson in 1875. She, like the other Lochs, brought out many of our early settlers between 1876 and 1887.

On her first voyage to Auckland, in 1875, she made the run from Gravesend to the Line in 31 days. She passed the meridian of the Cape on August 7, Tasmania on August 28, and sighted, the Three Kings on September 4. She averaged 245 miles a day across the Southern Ocean.

Her passages to New Zealand were:—