+-------------+--------+-------+-----+--------+-------+-------+----+ | | | | |Crossed | Ran | | | | | |Crossed| in |Meridian|Easting| |D’ys| | Ship |Sailed |Equator|Long.|of Cape | Down |Arrived|Out | | | | | | |in Lat.| | | +-------------+--------+-------+-----+--------+-------+-------+----+ | | 1872 | | ° | | ° | | | |_Thyatira_ |Feb. 23|Mar. 20| 22 W|April 25| 42 S |May 23| 89 | |_Ann Duthie_ |Mar. 5| „ 25| 27 | — | 48 | „ 24| 80 | |_Ascalon_ | „ 5|April 2| 23 |April 30| 41 |June 7| 94 | |_Maid of_ | „ 21| „ 18| 22 |May 21| — | „ 23| 94 | | _Judah_ | | | | | | | | |_Centurion_ |April 18|May 10| 22 |June 8| 39 |July 5| 78 | |_John Duthie_|June 4|June 30| 27 |July 28| 42 |Aug. 29| 86 | |_Strathdon_ |July 8|Aug. 14| 26 |Sept. 9| 45 |Oct. 25|109 | |_William_ | „ 16| „ 17| 27 | „ 15| 44 | „ 31|107 | | _Duthie_ | | | | | | | | |_Ethiopian_ | „ 25| „ 29| 21 | — | — | „ 31| 98 | | |1873 | | | | | | | |_Harlaw_ |Feb. 5|Feb. 25| 23 |Mar. 22| 45 |April29| 83 | |_Nineveh_ | „ 11|Mar. 8| 21 |April 3| 44 |May 1| 79 | |_Aviemore_ |Mar. 14| „ 29| 23 |May 28| 45 |June 4| 82 | |_Abergeldie_ |July 7| — | — |Sept. 1| 42 |Oct. 2| 87 | +-------------+----------+-----+-----+--------+-------+-------+----+ The South Australian Trade. During the sixties and seventies, when Sydney and Melbourne were filling their harbours with the finest ships in the British Mercantile Marine, Adelaide, in a smaller way, was carrying on an ever increasing trade of her own, in which some very smart little clippers were making very good money and putting up sailing records which could well bear comparison with those made by the more powerful clippers sailing to Hobson’s Bay and Port Jackson. From the early fifties South Australia had been sending wool home in exchange for general cargoes from London. This trade was in the hands of two or three well-run firms, such as the Orient, Devitt & Moore and Elder. These firms owned some beautiful little composite ships, which up till now have received scant notice in the annals of our Mercantile Marine. These little clippers, most of them well under 1000 tons register, were driven as hard as any Black Ball or White Star crack, and this without the incentive of publicity.