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Rig

Clipper of Green's Blackwall line

Tonnage

1011

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1864 ➜ 9 February 2018

Highflyer
London
London

➜ 20 September 1871

Highflyer
England
Melbourne

Description

69 days from the Lizard, English Channel to Cape Otway.

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Journal of round trip, 1869 - 1871 by Midshipman JS Roberts

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National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom JOD/54
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Letter by Annie Hunt, first class passenger, quoted in Pat Clarke - The Governesses (Sydney 1985)
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Female Middle Class Emigration Society papers, London Polytechnic
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Report on the voyage in the Melbourne Argus, late September 1869
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South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society records 2189
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Précis of career in David Roy MacGregor - The Tea Clippers: An account of the China trade and of some of the British sailing ships engaged in it from 1849 to 1869 (London 1952)

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