“Port Jackson.”

Port Jackson has always been considered one of the most beautiful iron ships ever built. She was designed by Mr. Alexander Duthie, and built by Hall under the supervision of the Duthie brothers; cost £29,000 to build or at the rate of £13 a ton; was unusually strong and in every way made as perfect as possible. She was one of the most sightly four-mast barques ever launched. Captain Crombie was her first commander, and under him she did some very fine performances, notably a run of 39 days from Sydney to San Francisco, when she was only three days behind the time of the mail steamer. Her best run in the 24 hours was 345 miles. Unfortunately, when Captain Crombie left her, for some years no one attempted to bring out Port Jackson’s sailing qualities, and for two years before she was bought by Devitt & Moore for their cadet training scheme she lay idle in the Thames. After long years of cadet carrying Port Jackson fell a victim to the war, being torpedoed by a German submarine in the Channel in 1916.

PASSAGES TO SYDNEY UNDER 80 DAYS IN 1882.
Ship	From	Left	To	Arrived	Days Out
Thomas Stephens	Channel	Nov. 9	Sydney	Jan. 22, ’83	74
Port Jackson	„	Oct. 28	„	Jan. 13, ’83	77

PASSAGES TO MELBOURNE UNDER 80 DAYS IN 1882.
Ship	Departure			Crossed Equator		Crossed Cape Meridian		Passed Cape Otway		Arrived		Days Out
Rodney	Plymouth	Oct.	15	Nov.	7	Nov.	29	Dec.	22	Dec.	23	69
Ben Voirlich	Lizard	May	3	May	28	June	18	July	11	July	12	70
Salamis	Lizard	Mar.	7	Mar.	31	April	24			May	17	71
Miltiades	Lizard	April	19	May	15	June	6			July	1	73
Aristides	Start	July	14	Aug.	13	Sept.	4	Sept.	25	Sept.	25	73
Simla	Penzance	Sept.	3							Nov.	16	74
Marpesia	Tuskar	July	9	Aug.	11	Aug.	30			Sept.	25	78
Thessalus	Channel	May	10							July	28	79