PASSAGES TO AUSTRALIA UNDER 80 DAYS IN 1885. +-------------+---------+--------+--------+---------+-----------+-------+----+ | | | |Crossed | | | | | | Ship |Departure| Passed | Cape | Passed |Destination| Date |Days| | | | Equator|Meridian| Otway | |Arrived|Out | +-------------+---------+--------+--------+---------+-----------+-------+----+ |_Salamus_ |Start |April 6|May 9|June 2 |Melbourne |June 3| 75 | | | Mar. 20| | | | | | | |_Patriarch_ |Start |Mar. 25| |May 21 |Sydney |May 23| 75 | | | Mar. 9| | | | | | | |_Cutty_ |Start |April 23|May 19|June 15 | „ |June 19| 77 | | _Sark_ | April 3| | |(SW Cape)| | | | |_Siren_ |Start |April 12|May 11|June 6 | „ |June 8| 77 | | | Mar. 23| | | | | | | |_Samuel_ |Start |April 28|May 21|June 18 | „ |June 21| 78 | | _Plimsoll_ | April 4| | | | | | | |_Argonaut_ |Start |July 10|Aug. 1|Aug. 27 | „ |Aug. 31| 78 | | | June 14| | | | | | | |_Bay of_ |Start |Mar. 28|April 20|May 19 | „ |May 23| 78 | | _Cadiz_ | Mar. 6| | | | | | | |_Thermopylae_|Start |Feb. 17|Mar. 9|April 7 |Melbourne |April 8| 78 | | | Jan. 20| | | | | | | |_Harbinger_ |Lizard |June 30|July 27|Aug. 21 | „ |Aug. 21| 78 | | | June 4| | | | | | | |_Sir Walter_ |Start |April 28|May 22|June 20 |Sydney |June 22| 79 | | _Raleigh_ | April 4| | | | | | | |_Milton Park_|Tuskar |July 18|Aug. 12|Sept. 5 | „ |Sept. 8| 79 | | | June 21| | | | | | | +-------------+---------+--------+--------+---------+-----------+-------+----+ Notes on Passages to Australia in 1885. The race of the year was that between _Cutty Sark_, _Samuel Plimsoll_, _Sir Walter Raleigh_ and still a fourth ship, the _City of York_, which was off the Start on 2nd April—crossed the line 23rd April—crossed Cape meridian 26th May—passed the Otway on 18th June—and arrived Sydney on 21st June, 80 days out.