Passages under 80 days to Sydney in 1881.
Again only three ships made the run out to Sydney in under 80 days.
Cimba dropped her pilot in the Channel on 10th May and arrived Sydney on 24th July, 75 days out. Samuel Plimsoll arrived on 10th June 79 days from the Channel, and Loch Etive on 20th September 79 days from the Clyde
| PASSAGES TO MELBOURNE UNDER 80 DAYS IN 1881. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ship | Departure | Crossed Equator | Crossed Cape Meridian | Passed Cape Otway | Arrived | Days Out | ||||||
| City of Agra | Lizard | May | 29 | June | 17 | July | 11 | Aug. | 5 | Aug. | 6 | 69 |
| Theophane | Tuskar | June | 2 | June | 29 | July | 20 | Aug. | 9 | Aug. | 10 | 69 |
| Sobraon | Plymouth | Sept. | 27 | Dec. | 6 | 70 | ||||||
| Loch Maree | S. Johns P. | May | 8 | June | 1 | June | 25 | July | 18 | July | 18 | 71 |
| Salamis | Portland | April | 20 | May | 11 | June | 6 | June | 30 | July | l | 72 |
| Ben Voirlich | Lizard | May | 2 | May | 25 | June | 21 | July | 13 | July | 15 | 74 |
| Thyatira | Start | May | 23 | June | 15 | July | 10 | Aug. | 6 | 75 | ||
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Dartmouth | May | 13 | June | 10 | July | 3 | July | 27 | July | 27 | 75 |
| Cassiope | Tuskar | July | 17 | Oct. | 3 | 78 | ||||||
| Mermerus | Lizard | Mar. | 31 | Apl. | 22 | May | 19 | June | 16 | June | 17 | 78 |
| Miltiades | Channel | May | 4 | July | 22 | 79 | ||||||
| Aristides | Lizard | June | 17 | July | 14 | Aug. | 8 | Sept. | 4 | 79 | ||