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It is worth recording here that orders continued to be placed for sailing vessels and in 1883 Robert Duncan of Port Glasgow built for Hugh Hogarth the first of several handsome iron, full-rigged vessels which became well known in the ports of the world. This first full-rigged ship was the MACHRIHANISH, which gained a considerable reputation by proving herself a swift sailer. In his book The Last of the Windjammers, Basil Lubbock described her as "A beauty and the clipper of Hugh Hogarth's fleet---. This enviable reputation resulted from several record passages which stand to her credit and perhaps the most notable of these was when, under the command of Captain J. A. Sanders, a Nova Scotian, she sailed from Portland, Oregon, with a full cargo of tinned salmon and, after crossing the Astoria Bar at the mouth of the Columbia River on 6th January, 1892, she arrived off Fastnet on 5th April, 1892 - eighty-nine days out. Another of her noteworthy passages was a ballast run from Cape Town to Otago Heads, New Zealand, in thirty days, a feature of this run being that she and the New Zealand Shipping Company's S.S. PAPAROA left Table Bay together and both arrived off the New Zealand coast when twenty-six days out. The MACHRIHANISH was followed by OCHTERTYRE, CORRYVRECHAN, ARDNAMURCHAN, BALLACHULISH and COLINTRAIVE, but none of these proved as fast as MACHR1HANISH. The COLINTRAIVE was the last sailing vessel to be built for Hugh Hogarth and she had a tragically short life, being lost without trace in 1894, when only two years old, whilst on passage from Newcastle, N.S.W. to San Francisco with a cargo of coal. The last sailing ship to be owned by H. Hogarth and Sons (as the company was by then known) was the OCHTERTYRE, sold in 1910 to Norwegian buyers. To anyone not conversant with some of the place-names to be found in the West of Scotland, it is not difficult to appreciate why these sailing ships became known as the 'Hogarth Jawbreakers'!