| | May 10| | | | | | +--------------+----------+-------+--------+--------+--------+----+ Notes on Passages to Australia in 1882. _Port Jackson_ holds the record of being the first four-poster to go out to Sydney in under 80 days. Her best run was 345 miles in the 24 hours. The _Rodney’s_ best run was 312 miles, made the day before she sighted the Otway. _Ben Voirlich_ averaged 300 miles a day from Gough Island to Kerguelen. _Salamis_ crossed the Cape meridian the same day as the steamship _Aberdeen_, and the steamer only managed to get inside the Heads on 14th May, a bare 70 hours ahead of the gallant little green clipper. The _Simla_ was a fine Liverpool ship with a good reputation for speed. She registered 1260 tons and was built by Royden in 1874. For a change there were no Lochs out to the Colonies in under 80 days this year, and Messrs. Aitken & Lilburn had sent their new four-masters to Calcutta. Notes on Passages to Australia in 1883. The _Maulesden_, which figured in these tables in 1877, was a 1500-ton ship, built by Stephen, of Dundee, for David Bruce. She and her sister ship, the _Duntrune_, were very well known clippers with some very fine records to their credit. But this passage of _Maulesden’s_ to Maryborough, Queensland, made a record which has never been approached. It will be noticed that she crossed the line 17 days out, doubled the Cape 39 days out, and passed Tasmania 61 days out, a truly phenomenal passage. Running the easting down, she made 24-hour runs of 302, 303, 304, 311, 317, 322 and 335 miles, whilst her best weeks were 1698, 1798, 1908 and 1929 miles. From Maryborough she went across to Frisco, and from there to U.K., calling at Queenstown; and the whole voyage, including detention in port, was only 9 months 13 days. I have a photograph of her, and she is a typical iron clipper very like the _Ben Voirlich_.