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The Clipper Age brought the development of a highly skilled set of sailors and craftsmen, and great notoriety for both the ships and crews that sailed them. Clippers were designed for fast voyages and this resonated with the 19th Century’s fascination for speed. Today they still represent some of the fastest oceangoing sailing vessels in the world.
Several passenger diaries exist in libraries and personal collections across the world.  We are fortunate to have access to some of them and sections of them are reproduced on this site.


Clippers were instrumental in opening new trade routes. The Great Clipper Races, relating to the transport of Australian wool and Chinese tea to the London markets, are an enduring memory of the importance of the clippers. The only two remaining examples of this important era of clipper design are the ‘City of Adelaide’ (1864) and the ‘Cutty Sark’ (1869). That the ‘City of Adelaide’ and the ‘Cutty Sark’ have survived to this day is a testament to the designers and builders of these composite clippers.
If your ancestor travelled aboard the ''City of Adelaide'' and kept a diary, we would love to hear from you.


The ‘City of Adelaide’ is also rather unique in that she was designed as a passenger ship – and now represents a vital icon of the making of modern Australia and of the relationship between Britain and the Australian colonies.
The diary transcripts that are available on this site are those of:


The ‘City of Adelaide’ travelled around the world on each of its return journeys carrying a wide range of passengers and cargo. The passengers on board included whole families travelling to South Australia to start a new life. They may have already had relatives in the State. There were businessmen returning to Britain or going back to Australia. Children were born during the voyage and illness overtook others and they were buried at sea.
* [[Diary of Sarah Ann Bray|Sarah Ann Bray]]
* [[Diary of Frederick Bullock|Frederick William Bullock]]
* [[Diary of James McLauchlan|James Anderson McLauchlan]]
* [[Diary of Melville Miller|Melville Miller]]
* [[Diary of F.A. Edelston|F.A. Edelston]]
* [[Diary of James Moorehouse|James Moorehouse]]


Now a project is underway to move the ‘City of Adelaide’ from the Scottish slipway where it has stood for the past 20 years and transport her to Port Adelaide in South Australia - representing the world’s last ever voyage of a Victorian era clipper ship.


In a joint Scottish-Australian initiative, we can arrange for a letter or letters to travel on board the clipper and be delivered to an appropriate primary school in South Australia. Your school might want to provide information about your area today and how it was in 1864 when passengers first boarded the ‘City of Adelaide’, bound for South Australia.
While not a diary, also provided is a very detailed account of the [[Nancarrow Family|Nancarrow]] family's migration.  This depiction also paints a picture of the life of a [[Cornwall|Cornish]] family, faced with economic hardship in the UK, migrating to work in the Moonta copper mines in South Australia.


If you wish to participate please contact us with an e-mail contact so that we can provide details of the deadline for the receipt of letters, the time-table for the sailing and progress reports during the journey. It might also be possible for some accompanied pupils to witness the departure of the ship from Scotland.
* [[Nancarrow Family|Joseph Towan Nancarrow]]

Latest revision as of 04:00, 14 December 2013

Several passenger diaries exist in libraries and personal collections across the world. We are fortunate to have access to some of them and sections of them are reproduced on this site.

If your ancestor travelled aboard the City of Adelaide and kept a diary, we would love to hear from you.

The diary transcripts that are available on this site are those of:


While not a diary, also provided is a very detailed account of the Nancarrow family's migration. This depiction also paints a picture of the life of a Cornish family, faced with economic hardship in the UK, migrating to work in the Moonta copper mines in South Australia.

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