APPENDIX F. The Wool Fleet , 1874-1890.

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Four Best Wool Passages, 1874-1890—Port to Port.

Ship Best Four
Passages
Total
Number
of Days
Average
Number
of Days
Total
Number
of Passages
Cutty Sark 72, 73, 72, 76 293 73¼ 7
Thermopylae 75, 79, 79, 79 312 78 10
Mermerus 78, 80, 81, 84 323 80¾ 15
Salamis 77, 83, 84, 85 329 82¼ 13

Cutty Sark’s passages are far superior to those of any other ship; in fact, if we take the average of all her wool passages between 1874 and 1890, it only comes to 77 days from port to port.

The Wool Fleet, 1873-4.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

Patriarch

Sydney Oct. 25 London Jan. 27 94

Miltiades

Melbourne Nov. 12 Feb. 16 96

Mermerus

15 16 93

Jerusalem

18 12 86

Sam Mendel

Dec. 17 Mar. 12 85

Collingwood

24 23 89

Loch Tay

30 23 83

The Tweed

Feb. 3 Apl. 27 83

Star of Peace

10 May 29 108

Ben Cruachan

Mar. 5 June 13 100

Samuel Plimsoll

Sydney April 14 July 5 82

Loch Maree

Melbourne June 14 Sept. 7 85

Ben Voirlich

14 Lizard 30 108

The Wool Fleet, 1874-5.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

Loch Tay

Melbourne Oct. 23 London Jan. 31 ’75 100

Ethiopian

Sydney 24 23 91

Macduff

Melbourne 30 26 88

Collingwood

Nov. 1 Feb. 4 95

Miltiades

4 Jan. 20 77

Loch Ard

10 Feb. 11 93

Patriarch

Sydney 14 6 84

Oberon

Melbourne 15 Jan. 31 77

Holmsdale

15 Feb. 6 83

City of Perth

15 4 81

Sam Mendel

18 Mar. 1 103

Ben Nevis

18 Feb. 3 77

Moravian

25 Mar. 4 99

John o’Gaunt

25 27 122

City of Agra

30 29 119

The Tweed

Sydney Jan. 11 ’75 Lizard April 7 86

Ben Cruachan

Melbourne 19 London 27 98

Samuel Plimsoll

Sydney Mar. 3 June 14 103

Romanoff

Melbourne 11 15 96

Ben Voirlich

16 17 93

Loch Maree

21 Wight 17 88

Thomas Stephens

April 30 Lizard Aug. 4 96

Loch Lomond

May 1 London 2 93

Cairnbulg

Sydney 6 27 113

The Wool Fleet, 1875-6.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

Queen of Nations

Sydney Oct. 16 London Feb. 18 ’76 125

Hawkesbury

25 15 113

Salamis

Melbourne 23 Jan. 25 94

Thessalus

30 31 93

Oberon

Nov. 5 Deal Feb. 17 104

Lincolnshire

7 London 17 102

City of Agra

10 17 99

La Hogue

Sydney 11 17 98

Ben Cruachan

Melbourne 11 Dover 16 97

Miltiades

14 London 17 95

Ben Ledi

16 Dungen’s 16 92

Loch Ard

17 16 91

Moravian

20 18 90

Abergeldie

Sydney 21 20 91

Holmsdale

Melbourne 21 19 90

Patriarch

Sydney 26 18 84

The Tweed

Dec. 10 17 69

Romanoff

Melbourne 10 Mar. 14 94

Centurion

Sydney 21 April 11 111

Loch Maree

Melbourne 29 Mar. 29 90

John Duthie

Sydney Jan. 1 ’76 April 12 101

Rodney

Melbourne 6 Deal 13 97

Thomasina McLellan

10 London 20 100

Samuel Plimsoll

Sydney 2 5 83

Loch Vennachar

Melbourne 13 11 88

Mermerus

17 20 93

Parramatta

Sydney Feb. 1 21 79

Nineveh

5 May 26 110

Loch Ness

Melbourne 22 24 91

Loch Garry

22

Thomas Stephens

Sydney Mar. 8 June 8 92

Cairnbulg

9 7 90

Darling Downs

9 24 107

The Wool Fleet, 1876-7.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

Sir Walter Raleigh

Melbourne Oct. 6 London Jan. 10 97

Macduff

Geelong 25 15 82

George Thompson

25 Feb. 5 103

Miltiades

Melbourne 27 Jan. 24 89

City of Agra

Geelong Nov. 3 Feb. 9 98

Loch Katrine

Melbourne 6 8 94

Ben Lomond

6 9 95

Loch Vennachar

8 9 93

Centurion

9 7 90

Romanoff

11 6 87

Ben Cruachan

Sydney 12 8 88

Samuel Plimsoll

19 19 92

Loch Maree

Melbourne 27 Mar. 6 99

Collingwood

27 6 99

Aristides

28 Feb. 17 81

Patriarch

Sydney Dec. 4 Mar. 6 92

Sam Mendel

Melbourne 11 26 106

Ben Voirlich

18 26 98

Loch Garry

Jan. 25 Deal May 10 105

Darling Downs

Sydney Feb. 1 London 22 110

Cairnbulg

5 10 94

Loch Lomond

17 10 82

Parramatta

17 10 82

The Wool Fleet, 1877-8.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

Ben Cruachan

Melbourne Oct. 24 London Jan. 22 ’78 90

Romanoff

27 Feb. 12 ’78 108

John Duthie

Sydney Nov. 1 15 107

Ben Voirlich

Melbourne 6 15 101

Samuel Plimsoll

Sydney 8 12 96

George Thompson

Melbourne 9 12 95

Loch Maree

11 13 94

Macduff

12 15 95

Miltiades

16 21 97

Patriarch

Sydney 21 28 99

Sir Walter Raleigh

Melbourne 23 Mar. 1 98

Salamis

24 Feb. 19 87

Mermerus

24 12 80

Cairnbulg

Sydney Dec. 3 Mar. 2 89

City of Agra

Melbourne 4 7 93

Old Kensington

7 7 90

Aristides

Adelaide 14 21 97

Loch Garry

Melbourne 20 April 4 105

True Briton

21 4 104

Thyatira

Jan. 12 16 94

La Hogue

Sydney 16 16 90

Thomas Stephens

Melbourne 17 18 91

The Wool Fleet, 1878-9.

Loch Katrine

Melbourne Sept. 23 London Jan. 15 ’79 114

Ascalon

Sydney Oct. 14 16 94

Romanoff

Melbourne 26 27 93

Nineveh

Sydney 29 Feb. 7 101

Ann Duthie

Nov. 2 3 93

Slieve More

Melbourne 4 8 96

Ben Cruachan

Geelong 5 8 95

Loch Maree

Melbourne 8 Jan. 30 83

Miltiades

11 Feb. 8 89

Mermerus

13 5 84

Merope

16 20 96

Cimba

Sydney 16 17 93

Jerusalem

Geelong 16 8 84

Ben Voirlich

Melbourne 17 Mar. 6 109

Melbourne

18 Prawle P Feb. 16 90

Samuel Plimsoll

Sydney 19 London 7 80

Aristides

Melbourne 23 18 87

Cynisca

Sydney 26 Mar. 14 108

Macduff

Geelong Dec. 1 4 93

Loch Lomond

Melbourne 3 6 93

Hawkesbury

Sydney 5 6 91

Old Kensington

Melbourne 7 7 90

Thomas Stephens

Sydney 7 6 89

Loch Garry

Geelong 13 13 90

Thyatira

Melbourne 14 6 82

Patriarch

Sydney 16 Lizard 15 89

Cairnbulg

20 April 8 109

Superb

Melbourne 21 Dover 1 101

La Hogue

Sydney Jan. 18 ’79 Lizard 18 90

Parramatta

Feb. 5 Plym’th 26 80

Windsor Castle

Mar. 11 Prawle P June 13 94
(D. Rose & Co.)

The Wool Fleet, 1879-80.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

Sam Mendel

Melbourne Nov. 3 London Feb. 6 95

Cimba

Sydney 6 Channel Mar. 4 119

Ben Cruachan

Geelong 9 London Feb. 6 89

Romanoff

Geelong 16 Mar. 10 114

Thermopylae

Sydney 18 Feb. 7 81

Salamis

Melbourne 19 Mar. 8 109

Samuel Plimsoll

Sydney 22 9 107

Macduff

Melbourne 23 9 106

Thyatira

26 8 102

Old Kensington

29 9 100

Sir Walter Raleigh

29 9 100

Mermerus

Dec. 4 4 90

Cynisca

Sydney 5 April 6 122

Dunbar Castle

11 3 113

Superb

Melbourne 13 3 111

Nineveh

Sydney 18 2 105

Darling Downs

30 2 94

Ben Voirlich

Jan. 1 17 106

Aristides

Melbourne 1 3 92

Loch Tay

3 19 106

Loch Vennachar

Geelong 16 19 93

Patriarch

Sydney 17 19 92

Loch Garry

Melbourne 22 19 87

The Wool Fleet, 1880-1.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

Woollahra

Sydney Sept. 3 London Dec. 1 88

Hawkesbury

30 27 88

The Tweed

Oct. 1 28 88

Samuel Plimsoll

12 Feb. 2 113

Thermopylae

14 Jan. 12 90

Miltiades

Melbourne 20 Motherb’nk Feb. 3 106

Cimba

Sydney 23 London 2 102

Sir Walter Raleigh

Melbourne 26 13 110

Loch Vennachar

27 Jan. 31 96

Loch Maree

28 Feb. 3 98

Melbourne

29 Jan. 31 94

Romanoff

29 Feb. 2 96

Patriarch

Sydney 29 3 97

Ben Voirlich

Melbourne Nov. 5 7 94

Mermerus

5 4 91

Salamis

Geelong 9 5 88

Sam Mendel

Melbourne 10 Mar. 8 118

Windsor Castle

11 Feb. 5 86
(Green’s)

Windsor Castle

Sydney 13 Jan. 31 79
(D. Rose)

Aristides

Melbourne 17 Feb. 4 79

Thyatira

Geelong 20 Mar. 5 105

Loch Garry

Melbourne 29 Feb. 24 87

Darling Downs

Sydney Dec. 5 April 13 129

Collingwood

Melbourne 5 Mar. 20 105

Thessalus

Jan. 14 April 28 104

Parramatta

Sydney 24 30 96

Brilliant

Feb. 2 May 1 88

Loch Tay

Melbourne 25 Falm’th June 8 103

Argonaut

April 7 London 30 84

The Wool Fleet, 1881-2.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

Windsor Castle

Sydney Oct. 15 London Jan. 30 107
(D. Rose)

Salamis

Geelong 29 Feb. 7 101

Romanoff

Melbourne Nov. 7 18 103

Holmsdale

10 17 99

Loch Garry

11 Wight 16 97

Ben Cruachan

12 London 18 98

Sir Walter Raleigh

12 Mar. 6 114

Parthenope

13 Feb. 15 94

Theophane

Geelong 14 Dover 16 94

Miltiades

Melbourne 14 Downs 16 94

Patriarch

Sydney 15 London Mar. 6 111

City of Agra

Melbourne 17 Feb. 20 95

Mermerus

17 Lizard 14 89

Samuel Plimsoll

Sydney 17 Downs 16 91

Ben Voirlich

Geelong 18 London Mar. 22 124

Loch Rannoch

29 29 120

Thyatira

Melbourne Dec. 3 18 105

Loch Vennachar

9 3 84

Thessalus

Sydney 19 28 99

Aristides

Melbourne Feb. 6 ’82 May 11 94

The Wool Fleet, 1882-3.

Windsor Castle

Sydney Oct. 13 Falm’th Jan. 20 99
(D. Rose & Co.)

Thermopylae

14 London Dec. 28 75

Salamis

Melbourne 17 Jan. 19 94

Loch Garry

Nov. 3 Feb. 14 103

Samuel Plimsoll

Sydney 4 4 92

Orontes

6 15 101

Loch Vennachar

Melbourne 8 15 99

Macduff

8 11 95

Ben Voirlich

9 9 92

Holmsdale

9 15 98

Ben Cruachan

13 12 91

Hallowe’en

Sydney 14 13 91

Miltiades

Melbourne 14 14 92

Romanoff

16 14 90

Loch Sloy

23 23 92

Mermerus

25 14 81

John Duthie

Sydney 29 Mar. 25 116

Collingwood

Melbourne 6 Mar. 26 110

Melbourne

14 27 103

Patriarch

Sydney 26 April 10 105

Woollahra

Jan. 6 7 91

Cimba

7 Channel 22 105

Smyrna

7 London 30 113

Anglo-Norman

10 23 103

Christiana Thompson

19 May 12 113

Darling Downs

23 April 30 97

Loch Etive

24 May 16 112

La Hogue

Sydney Jan. 25 April 30 95

Dharwar

Feb. 8 June 4 116

Hawkesbury

8 May 12 93

Trafalgar

8 12 93

Gladstone

26 13 76

Rodney

Melbourne Mar. 4 Prawle June 11 99

Parramatta

Sydney 6 London July 7 123

Abergeldie

April 15 Aug. 1 108

Brilliant

19 4 107

William Duthie

20 15 117

Port Jackson

28 July 30 93

The Wool Fleet, 1883-4.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

John Duthie

Sydney Oct. 12 London Jan. 10 90

Salamis

Melbourne 19 27 100

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sydney 20 19 91

Woollahra

26 Feb. 6 103

Thermopylae

31 Jan. 26 87

Loch Vennachar

Melbourne Nov. 3 Feb. 25 114

Ben Cruachan

3 Jan. 27 85

Holmsdale

3 Feb. 10 99

Loch Garry

Geelong 3 2 91

Patriarch

Sydney 3 2 91

Windsor Castle

3 6 94
(D. Rose)

Anglo-Norman

4 1 89

Samuel Plimsoll

5 Jan. 28 84

Ethiopian

Geelong 7 Feb. 12 97

Ben Voirlich

11 10 91

South Australian

Melbourne 14 20 98

Romanoff

17 12 87

Mermerus

21 24 93

Loch Tay

24 Mar. 3 99

Thyatira

28 10 102

Hawkesbury

Sydney Dec. 7 10 93

Loch Long

Melbourne 8 14 96

Melbourne

12 18 96

Cutty Sark

Newcastle 28 20 82

Dharwar

Sydney 29 April 21 113

Cimba

29 22 114

Christiana Thompson

29 21 113

Miltiades

Geelong Jan. 4 22 108

Smyrna

Sydney 14 30 106

Rodney

Melbourne 19 28 99

Jerusalem

Sydney Feb. 6 May 3 87

The Wool Fleet, 1884-5.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

Loch Long

Melbourne Oct. 5 London Jan. 9 96

Thermopylae

6 Dec. 24 79

Patriarch

Sydney 12 Channel Jan. 10 90

Sir Walter Raleigh

14 London 27 105

Samuel Plimsoll

15 Plym’th 22 99

Salamis

Melbourne 19 London 11 84

Thyatira

31 Feb. 14 106

The Tweed

Sydney Nov. 4 14 102

Hawkesbury

26 28 94

Ben Cruachan

Melbourne 28 27 91

Gladstone

Newcastle Dec. 2 Mar. 20 108

Mermerus

Melbourne 5 Feb. 27 84

Loch Garry

Geelong 5 Mar. 30 115

Orontes

Sydney 5 31 116

Christiana Thompson

6 27 111

Woollahra

7 27 110

Cutty Sark

Newcastle 9 Feb. 27 80

Cimba

Sydney 12 Mar. 27 105

Dharwar

12 27 105

Harbinger

Melbourne 24 April 2 99

Loch Vennachar

27 Mar. 29 92

Miltiades

28 30 92

Trafalgar

Sydney Jan. 19 April 29 100

Cairnbulg

20 23 93

Rodney

Melbourne Feb. 2 26 83

Port Jackson

Sydney 12 May 17 94

Centurion

Mar. 21 June 20 91

The Wool Fleet, 1885-6.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

Patriarch

Newcastle Oct. 5 London Jan. 7 94

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sydney 12 5 85

Loch Vennachar

Melbourne 14 7 85

Cutty Sark

Sydney 16 Dec. 27 72

Salamis

Melbourne 17 Jan. 2 77

Woollahra

Sydney 17 7 82

Thermopylae

18 5 79

Samuel Plimsoll

24 23 91

Cimba

24 28 97

Harbinger

Melbourne Nov. 7 Feb. 5 90

Ben Cruachan

13 2 81

Mermerus

30 Lizard Mar. 19 109

Illawarra

Sydney Dec. 7 London 21 104

The Tweed

7 25 108

Thomas Stephens

11 21 100

Ben Voirlich

Melbourne 22 21 89

Rodney

22 19 87

Loch Ness

Jan. 4 May 3 119

Loch Ryan

8 8 120

Mount Stewart

10 3 113

Darling Downs

16 11 115

Dharwar

19 11 112

Trafalgar

Sydney 23 10 107

Loch Sloy

Melbourne 30 27 117

Brilliant

Sydney Feb. 3 7 93

Port Jackson

8 27 108

Miltiades

Melbourne Mar. 22 June 24 94

The Wool Fleet, 1886-7.

Loch Vennachar

Melbourne Oct. 21 London Jan. 20 91

Salamis

„ „ 24 „ „ 17 85

Patriarch

Sydney „ 24 „ „ 21 89

Thermopylae

„ „ 24 „ „ 19 87

Blackadder

Newcastle „ 27 „ Feb. 23 119

Derwent

Sydney Nov. 6 „ „ 22 108

Cimba

„ „ 27 „ „ 24 90

Woollahra

„ „ 30 „ „ 26 88

Aristides

Melbourne Dec. 7 „ Mar. 10 93

Mermerus

„ „ 10 „ Feb. 26 78

Sir Walter Raleigh

„ „ 11 „ Mar. 1 80

Harbinger

„ „ 13 „ „ 25 102

Samuel Plimsoll

Sydney „ 14 „ „ 25 101

Rodney

Melbourne „ 17 „ April 17 121

Loch Garry

Geelong „ 18 „ „ 13 116

City of Agra

Melbourne Jan. 1 „ „ 23 112

South Australian

„ „ 1 „ „ 23 112

Cairnbulg

Sydney „ 8 „ „ 22 104

Illawarra

„ „ 13 „ „ 22 97

Port Jackson

„ „ 15 „ „ 24 99

Orontes

„ „ 16 „ „ 23 97

Smyrna

„ „ 18 „ „ 24 96

Trafalgar

„ Feb. 15 „ May 21 95

Dharwar

„ „ 15 „ „ 21 95

Cutty Sark

„ Mar. 26 „ June 6 72

The Wool Fleet, 1887-8.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sydney Sept 14 London Jan. 2 110

Thermopylae

Oct. 16 3 79

Patriarch

16 20 96

Loch Vennachar

Melbourne 17 5 80

Woollahra

Sydney 23 23 92

Cimba

24 22 90

Samuel Plimsoll

25 27 94

Salamis

Melbourne 26 17 83

Romanoff

Nov. 2 Mar. 11 130

Smyrna

Sydney 12 13 122

Derwent

17 Feb. 20 95

Thyatira

Newcastle 21 Dungen’s Mar. 8 108

Dharwar

Melbourne 23 London 5 103

Loch Ryan

Geelong 23 12 110

Harbinger

Melbourne 28 10 103

Mermerus

29 9 101

Orontes

Sydney Dec. 1 13 103

Illawarra

5 8 94

Aristides

Melbourne 5 5 91

Yallaroi

Sydney 10 10 91

Trafalgar

12 11 90

Collingwood

Melbourne 12 11 90

City of Agra

17 10 83

Loch Garry

21 15 85

Cutty Sark

Newcastle 28 Dungen’s 8 71

Gladstone

Sydney Jan. 7 London April 5 89

Miltiades

Melbourne 11 11 91

Brilliant

Sydney 26 18 83

Thomas Stephens

Feb. 4 May 17 103

The Wool Fleet, 1888-9.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

Derwent

Sydney Oct. 10 London Jan. 17 99

Cimba

18 15 89

Orontes

20 22 94

Star of Italy

20 14 86

Woollahra

24 18 86

Salamis

Melbourne 24 17 85

Cutty Sark

Sydney 26 Start 18 84

Loch Vennachar

Melbourne 27 London 19 84

Gladstone

Sydney 30 Feb. 15 108

Centurion

31 21 113

Mermerus

Melbourne Nov. 3 Jan. 31 89

Blackadder

Newcastle 17 Feb. 15 90

Loch Ryan

Geelong 23 Mar. 9 106

Harbinger

Melbourne 26 8 102

Nebo

Sydney 28 Feb. 16 82

Thomas Stephens

29 Mar. 20 111

Dharwar

Melbourne Dec. 1 7 96

Trafalgar

Sydney 6 Mar. 18 102

Yallaroi

10 20 100

Collingwood

Melbourne 15 20 95

Loch Garry

21 20 89

Sophocles

Sydney 22 April 15 114

Samuel Plimsoll

Melbourne 23 2 100

Rodney

Sydney 24 Mar. 27 93

Romanoff

Geelong 31 April 23 113

Torridon

Sydney Jan. 12 29 107

Thermopylae

Mar. 26 June 29 95

The Wool Fleet, 1889-90.

Ship From Left To Arrived D’ys
Out

Derwent

Sydney Oct. 14 London Jan. 2 80

Cairnbulg

15 24 101

Orontes

17 24 99

Loch Vennachar

Melbourne 21 15 86

Salamis

22 15 85

Cimba

Sydney 22 5 75

Woollahra

22 15 85

Rodney

31 Lizard 16 77

Cutty Sark

Nov. 3 Start 16 74

Loch Ryan

Melbourne 3 London Mar. 11 128

Mermerus

Dec. 7 10 93

Thomas Stephens

10 28 108

Loch Tay

Geelong 12 15 96

Samuel Plimsoll

Melbourne 14 26 102

Yallaroi

Sydney 20 April 8 109

Trafalgar

21 8 108

Harbinger

Melbourne 22 10 109

Collingwood

23 Mar. 28 95

Loch Rannoch

23 April 10 108

Illawarra

Sydney 23 5 103

Romanoff

Melbourne Jan. 1 6 95

Thermopylae

Sydney 9 Deal 8 89

Loch Long

Geelong 18 London 27 99

Loch Sloy

Melbourne 18 28 100

Brilliant

Sydney 25 22 87

Torridon

25 26 91

Patriarch

27 26 89

Hesperus

Melbourne 31 May 14 103

Port Jackson

Sydney Feb. 8 8 89

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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