Correcting my own errors---

I had a look at my 6 pages of notes on the Black Ball & saw why I was disturbed by what I said about the Seattle line. It was the forth. Baines' was the third, as I first thought. The second seems never worth discussing but here's the note:

Lars Bruzelius (see his extensive website) sends this:

>According to Stammers it seems that the Saint John-Liverpool Packet Line
>which existed during a couple of years in the 1850s and was managed by
>Richard Wright, St John, and William and James Fernie, Liverpool, was also
>known as the Black Ball Line.
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Note, to avoid some confusion, the first line had the black ball logo but was originally known as "the Old Line" for 15 years or so.
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Grab, yer welcome. In addition to your question, I might have noted that that "red-topped boots" reference likely referred to the New York line. It was a habit of American sailors in general but not of British ones. Ergo, the first, the NY-Liverpool line.