You are looking at the older of the world’s two surviving examples of their particular, “elite” type of sailing ship.
The younger one is the Cutty Sark.
The City of Adelaide was launched five years earlier, in 1864, in Sunderland.
It was custom-built to transport passengers and cargo to and from South Australia.
For its first 23 years of service, City of Adelaide sailed to and from Adelaide, annually.
An amazing “fact”: almost quarter of a million Australians can trace their heritage to passengers and crew of the City of Adelaide.
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