“Torrens’” Outward Passages.

When inspecting Torrens’ wonderful times, two things in her favour must be remembered, firstly that she sailed from England at the most favourable time in the year, and secondly that, carrying passengers, she was always in perfect trim. On the other hand, everything was done to make the passengers comfortable, especially as many of them were invalids or consumptives going for the benefit of the voyage, thus she was never driven as she might have been.

With the change of ownership as with the change of skippers, evil luck again struck the celebrated old ship, for the Italians soon ran her ashore and after getting her off again sent her to Genoa to be broken up. But when the Genoese shipbreakers saw the beauty of her model and construction, they went to the expense of repairing her, only to again bump her on the rocks. This time she was towed back to Genoa for good and all, and was broken up in 1910.

Captain.	Date Left London.	Date Left Plymouth.	Date Arrived Adelaide.	Days Out.
H. R. Angel	Dec. 8, 1875	Dec. 12, 1875	Mar. 7, 1876	85
„	Oct. 26, 1876	Oct. 29, 1876	Jan. 18, 1877	81
„	„ 27, 1877	Nov. 4, 1877	„ 11, 1878	68
„	„ 26, 1878	„ 2, 1878	„ 18, 1879	77
„	„ 26, 1879	Oct. 30, 1879	„ 8, 1880	70
„	„ 28, 1880	Nov. 2, 1880	„ 6, 1881	65
„	„ 27, 1881	Oct. 29, 1881	„ 8, 1882	71
„	„ 26, 1882	„ 29, 1882	„ 16, 1883	79
„	„ 27, 1883	„ 29, 1883	„ 7, 1884	70
„	„ 26, 1884	Nov. 2, 1884	„ 25, 1885	84
„	„ 27, 1885	„ 1, 1885	„ 8, 1886	68
„	„ 28, 1886	„ 2, 1886	„ 15, 1887	74
„	„ 27, 1887	„ 8, 1887	„ 14, 1888	67
„	„ 27, 1888	„ 1, 1888	„ 14, 1889	74
„	„ 30, 1889	„ 7, 1889	„ 26, 1890	80
W. H. Cope	„ 29, 1890	Dismasted	April 26, 1891	179
„	—	Nov. 25, 1891	Feb. 28, 1892	95
„	Oct. 25, 1892	—	Jan. 30, 1893	97
„	Nov. 3, 1893	—	„ 26, 1894	84
„	Oct. 14, 1894	—	„ 13, 1895	91
„	Sept. 18, 1895	—	Dec. 6, 1895	79
F. Angel	Oct. 26, 1896	Left Downs Oct. 28	Jan. 11, 1897	75
„	„ 30, 1897	—	„ 15, 1898	77
„	„ 25, 1898	Struck Iceberg	Feb. 5, 1899	103
„	„ 31, 1899	—	Feb. 5, 1900	97
„	„ 27, 1900	Left Downs Oct. 30	Jan. 20, 1901	82
„	„ 24, 1901	—	Feb. 2, 1902	101
„	„ 26, 1902	—	Jan. 17, 1903	83

The Torrens, with the exception of the Lochs, was the last sailing ship to carry passengers. As a composite ship, built specially for passengers, she had no rival except Devitt & Moore’s celebrated Sobraon.

“SOBRAON.”

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“SOBRAON.”

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