_Cassiope_ and _Parthenope_ were actually sister ships though by different builders. They were both fine fast clippers of the best Liverpool type. _Cassiope_, however, had a short life, being lost with all hands in 1885, when bound to London with Heap’s Rangoon rice, under the well-known Captain Rivers. _Parthenope_ was sold in her old age to the Italians and rechristened _Pelogrino O._ On the 31st July, 1907, she sailed with coals from Newcastle, N.S.W., for Antofagasta and never arrived.
D. Rose & Co.’s _Trafalgar_ was a very regular Sydney trader. She went to the Norwegians and was still afloat, owned in Christiania, when the war broke out.
PASSAGES UNDER 80 DAYS TO SYDNEY IN 1875. +------------+---------+-------+--------+---------+-------+----+ | | |Crossed|Crossed | Passed | |Days| | Ship |Departure|Equator| Cape |S.W. Cape|Arrived|Out | | | | |Meridian|Tasmania | | | +------------+---------+-------+--------+---------+-------+----+ |_Cutty_ |Lizard |Dec. 21|Jan. 13|Feb. 4 |Feb. 12| 75 | | _Sark_ | Nov. 29| | ’76| ’76 | ’76| | |_Samuel_ |Falmouth |Sept. 4|Sept. 28|Oct. 19 |Oct. 22| 75 | | _Plimsoll_| Aug. 8| | |(Otway) | | | +------------+-----------------+--------+---------+-------+----+
PASSAGES UNDER 80 DAYS TO MELBOURNE IN 1875. +--------------+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----+ | | |Crossed |Crossed |Passed | |Days| | Ship | Departure |Equator | Cape | Cape |Arrived |Out | | | | |Meridian| Otway | | | +--------------+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----+ |_Thermopylae_ |Lizard |Dec. 24|Jan. 14|Feb. 7|Feb. 9| 68 | | | Dec. 3 | ’76| | ’76| ’76| | |_Salamis_ |Start |Aug. 2|Aug. 24|Sept. 16|Sept. 16| 68 | | | July 10 | | | | | | |_Mermerus_ |Tuskar |Aug. 15| |Oct. 1|Oct. 1| 68 | | | July 27 | | | | | | |_Loch Garry_ |Tuskar |Dec. 5|Dec. 29| |Jan. 20| 73 | | | Nov. 8 | | | | ’76| | |_City of_ |Start |Sept. 27|Oct. 21|Nov. 16|Nov. 16| 73 | | _Corinth_ | Sept. 4 | | | | | | |_Loch Maree_ |Scilly |Sept. 5|Sept. 26| |Oct. 21| 74 | | | Aug. 8 | | | | | | |_Romanoff_ |Lizard |Sept. 5| |Oct. 22|Oct. 23| 74 | | | Aug. 10 | | | | | | |_Loch_ |Inistrahull|Oct. 10|Oct. 28|Nov. 18|Nov. 19| 74 | | _Vennachar_ | Sept. 6 | | | | | | |_Wasdale_ |Tuskar |Sept. 4|Sept. 26| |Oct. 20| 74 | | | Aug. 7 | | | | | | |_Moravian_ |Lizard |June 22| | |Aug. 9| 75 | | | May 26 | | | | | | |_City of Agra_|Start |June 24| | |Aug. 15| 76 | | | May 31 | | | | | | |_Ben Cruachan_|Tuskar |July 1|July 29| |Aug. 23| 77 | | | June 7 | | | | | | |_Parthenope_ |Tuskar |June 29| | |Aug. 25| 77 | | | June 9 | | | | | | |_Glengarry_ |Tuskar |Mar. 22| | |May 14| 77 | | | Feb. 26 | | | | | | |_Old_ Channel | | |Apl. 21|Apl. 22| 78 | | _Kensington_| Feb. 3 | | | | | | |_Loch Katrine_|Holyhead | | | |July 25| 79 | | | May 7 | | | | | | +--------------+-----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----+