This was _Cimba’s_ last voyage under the British flag; she came home from Caleta Buena to Falmouth in 85 days, and was then sold (March, 1906) to the Norwegians owing to the death of her owner.
Under the Norwegians she made a remarkable passage from Dublin to the St. Lawrence in 14 days; lumber was now her chief cargo and she used often to be seen discharging firewood from the Baltic in the Aberdeen Bay, East India Dock, where she had so often loaded general for Sydney.
PASSAGES TO SYDNEY UNDER 80 DAYS IN 1878. +-------------+---------+-------+--------+---------+-------+----+ | | | |Crossed |Passed | | | | Ship |Departure|Crossed| Cape |S.W. Cape|Arrived|Days| | | |Equator|Meridian|Tasmania | |Out | +-------------+---------+-------+--------+---------+-------+----+ |_Loch Etive_ |Scillies |Feb. 6|Mar. 4 |Mar. 28 |Apl. 3 | 76 | | | Jan. 17| | | | | | |_Thomas_ |Plymouth |July 18|Aug. 1 |Aug. 21 |Aug. 31| 77 | | _Stephens_ | June 15| | | | | | +-------------+---------+-------+--------+---------+-------+----+
PASSAGES TO MELBOURNE UNDER 80 DAYS IN 1878. +--------------+---------+-------+--------+-------+--------+----+ | | | |Crossed |Passed | | | | Ship |Departure|Crossed|Cape |Cape |Arrived |Days| | | |Equator|Meridian|Otway | |Out | +--------------+---------+-------+--------+-------+--------+----+ |_Thessalus_ |Lizard |Mar. 28|Apl. 20 | |May 14| 68 | | | Mar. 7| | | | | | |_Parthenope_ |Tuskar |July 31|Aug. 20 | |Sept. 16| 71 | | | July 7| | | | | | |_Aristides_ |Start |July 27|Aug. 18 | |Sept. 15| 74 | | | July 3| | | | | | |_Miltiades_ |Start |June 30|July 21 |Aug. 13|Aug. 14| 75 | | | May 31| | | | | | |_Loch_ |Smalls |Aug. 4|Aug. 29 | |Sept. 23| 75 | | _Vennachar_ | July 10| | | | | | |_Old_ |Lizard |July 2|July 24 |Aug. 19|Aug. 20| 76 | | _Kensington_| June 5| | | | | | |_Aviemore_ |Start |July 27|Aug. 18 |Sept.15|Sept. 16| 79 | | | June 29| | | | | | +--------------+---------+-------+--------+-------+--------+----+
_Thessalus_ was the heroine of the year, though on her arrival in Melbourne critics declared that she was too deeply loaded for safety.
_Miltiades_ had a bad time running her easting down; on more than one occasion her decks were badly swept, and once Captain Perrett was washed off the poop on to the main deck and had his head badly cut about.