"Truth" of Liverpool was a famous clipper sailing first on the China tea run, later bringing wool home from Australia. She was a fast but notoriously difficult ship, wet even in moderate seas and prone to boring up into the wind. No one was appointed her master without first doing a good job as mate. So many a seasoned skipper was turned away by her owners with the following words: "You may have been round the Horn as often as an albatross, sir, but you can't handle the 'Truth'."
I CAME, I SAW, I CONQUERED