“WOOLLAHRA.”
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| PASSAGES UNDER 80 DAYS TO SYDNEY IN 1875. | |||||||
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| Ship | Departure | Crossed Equator | Crossed Cape Meridian | Passed S.W. Cape Tasmania | Arrived | Days Out | |
| Cutty Sark | Lizard | Nov. 29 | Dec. 21 | Jan. 13 ’76 | Feb. 4 ’76 | Feb. 12 ’76 | 75 |
| Samuel Plimsoll | Falmouth | Aug. 8 | Sept. 4 | Sept. 28 | Oct. 19 | Oct. 22 | 75 |
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| PASSAGES UNDER 80 DAYS TO MELBOURNE IN 1875. | |||||||
| Ship | Departure | Crossed Equator | Crossed Cape Meridian | Passed Cape Otway | Arrived | Days Out | |
| Thermopylae | Lizard | Dec. 3 | Dec. 24 | Jan. 14 ’76 | Feb. 7 ’76 | Feb. 9 ’76 | 68 |
| Salamis | Start | July 10 | Aug. 2 | Aug. 24 | Sept. 16 | Sept. 16 | 68 |
| Mermerus | Tuskar | July 27 | Aug. 15 | Oct. 1 | Oct. 1 | 68 | |
| Loch Garry | Tuskar | Nov. 8 | Dec. 5 | Dec. 29 | Jan. 20 ’76 | 73 | |
| City of Corinth | Start | Sept. 4 | Sept. 27 | Oct. 21 | Nov. 16 | Nov. 16 | 73 |
| Loch Maree | Scilly | Aug. 8 | Sept. 5 | Sept. 26 | Oct. 21 | 74 | |
| Romanoff | Lizard | Aug. 10 | Sept. 5 | Oct. 22 | Oct. 23 | 74 | |
| Loch Vennachar | Inistrahull | Sept. 6 | Oct. 10 | Oct. 28 | Nov. 18 | Nov. 19 | 74 |
| Wasdale | Tuskar | Aug. 7 | Sept. 4 | Sept. 26 | Oct. 20 | 74 | |
| Moravian | Lizard | May 26 | June 22 | Aug. 9 | 75 | ||
| City of Agra | Start | May 31 | June 24 | Aug. 15 | 76 | ||
| Ben Cruachan | Tuskar | June 7 | July 1 | July 29 | Aug. 23 | 77 | |
| Parthenope | Tuskar | June 9 | June 29 | Aug. 25 | 77 | ||
| Glengarry | Tuskar | Feb. 26 | Mar. 22 | May 14 | 77 | ||
| Old Kensington | Channel | Feb. 3 | Apl. 21 | Apl. 22 | 78 | ||
| Loch Katrine | Holyhead | May 7 | July 25 | 79 | |||
Notes on Passages to Australia in 1875.
In no year were so many magnificent iron clippers launched as in 1875, and of the ships which made the passage to Melbourne in under 80 days no less than five, namely, Salamis, Loch Garry, Loch Vennachar, Parthenope and Old Kensington, were on their maiden passages. Loch Garry’s best run in the 24 hours was 333 miles, and Loch Vennachar did a week’s work of 2065 miles, viz., 285, 290, 320, 320, 312, 268 and 270. Samuel Plimsoll, with 360 emigrants on board, left Plymouth on 6th August, at 11.15 p.m.; on the same day she ran into and sank the Italian barque Enrica, though without damage to herself. She saved the Italian’s crew and put into Falmouth to land them.
Captain Richards left the Thomas Stephens in order to tune up Parthenope. He made the latter travel, but as he returned to the Thomas Stephens in 1876 he evidently preferred his old clipper.
Thermopylae still maintained her wonderful reputation; on this trip she averaged 270 miles a day from 23° W. to 100° E.
The Old Kensington was a very fine ship with a good turn of speed, and she usually loaded home from Calcutta or San Francisco.