Clipper Ship 'City of Adelaide'

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Copy from City of Adelaide Civic Collection Item Number CC1130

Diary of Melville Millers voyage from London to Adelaide, South Australia in the Clipper Ship “City of Adelaide” – June 1st to August 20th 1871

Melville Miller was the nephew of Robert Miller, founder of Miller Andersons.

The copy was presented to the council on 27th April 1980, by Mrs T Foxlee of 12A Adams Hill, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, England, NG12 5GY

James Anderson and Caroline Ann McLauchlan with five of their nine children (c1889); Source: Cambelltown City Council

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Extracts from a diary kept by James Anderson McLauchlan (21 years old) between 30/5/1874 and 19/8/1874 on board the City of Adelaide. The diary begins with his departure from Dundee, Scotland aboard the steamer SS Anglia and continues aboard the City of Adelaide. It ends at about the time that the ship reached the proximity of Kangaroo Island. His grand children asked why he had not recorded anything after that date. His answer was simply that he had run out of note paper. These are posted here with the kind permission of Ian McLauchlan, great-grandson of the author.