I searched Liverpool through for sailing craft one day not long ago, and none did I find but a few topsail schooners loading salt and Sunlight Soap for little Welsh and West country harbours, and one ugly tub of a four-masted schooner, as leaky as a sieve, and by the looks of her a war product of the U.S. Shipping Boad or I am greatly mistaken. Surely no nation ever put so many hideous nightmares in the form of ships on the water as the United States during the War period. The one great thing in their favour is that they will soon be gone. Sail and steam alike, they are so very "War" in their construction that not many of them will survive a few years' service. (Part II. Chapter I).