1896 - Ellen A. Read - 'The British American ship Ellen A. Read 1,750 tons, hailing from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia is a fine symmetrical-looking vessel of large carrying capacity. She arrived in the bay yesterday from New York after a somewhat protracted passage, for which however the vagaries of wind and weather are responsible rather than any want of sailing, capacity on the part of the ship.
Upon reaching the bay the vessel, having a quantity of explosives on board anchored outside the "powder line", where the usual health and Customs clearances were promptly effected. The Ellen A. Read has a very large miscellaneous cargo the most, conspicuous items of which are as follows: - 37,948 pieces of slate, - 2,200 cases of kerosene, 14,541ft of oak 470 staves , 1,250 boxes of maizena, 859 barrels and 123 cases of lubricating oils, whilst heavy consignments of axes, clothes pins, grape sugar, printing paper, tobacco, turpentine. agricultural implements, resin, drugs agricultural implements, resin, drugs and chemicals, canned goods and a host of other commodities are also shown in the manifest.
Captain R. C. Perry reports that following departure from New York on the October 24 the vessel met for the most part with light easterly and variable winds the equator being crossed on the thirty fifth day out in Ion. 28deg west .The south-east trades were fallen in with almost on the line, and were carried moderate to lat. 25 deg, south and lon 24deg west where on the December I0 they were supplanted by moderate variable breezes which lasted up to the 18th of that month.
As the prime meridian was passed fresh westerlies ensued and the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope was passed on December 22 in lat 39deg 8 At this juncture, however, progress was considerably checked by easterly winds, which, blowing alternately moderate and fresh, found the ship making but small headway. For a long time these breezes prevailed, the vessel reaching 80deg E, before they gave way to westerly winds During this long stretch the ship covered an extremely wide belt of latitude viz. , that between the parallels of 39deg and 43deg. The meridian of Cape Leeuwin was crossed on the 29th inst., and the vessel, attended by moderate westerlies entered the Heads at 7 :30 a.m. yesterday . She was subsequently taken in tow by the Eagle and conducted up to her anchorage The Ellen A Read is consigned to John Connell and Co, and will discharge at the Port Melbourne Town Pier.' - The Argos (Melbourne, Vic.) [829] [830] 28th January 1896.
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