“Cassiope” and “Parthenope.”
Cassiope and Parthenope were actually sister ships though by different builders. They were both fine fast clippers of the best Liverpool type. Cassiope, however, had a short life, being lost with all hands in 1885, when bound to London with Heap’s Rangoon rice, under the well-known Captain Rivers. Parthenope was sold in her old age to the Italians and rechristened Pelogrino O. On the 31st July, 1907, she sailed with coals from Newcastle, N.S.W., for Antofagasta and never arrived.