Wednesday, August 28, 2024

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The Sin Nanzing, new China clipper, 1870. 'The first British merchant-vessel that has made the voyage to India by passing through the Suez Canal is the new paddle steam-ship Sin Nanzing...[She] left Greenock on Nov. 11, stopped three days at Gibraltar for coal, and...was off Port Said on the 29th...on Dec. 1...[she] went into the Canal...and arrived at Suez on Dec. 3...[She left the same day] and reached Bombay in twelve days ten hours. The whole voyage from Greenock to Bombay thus occupied thirty-six days. In the opinion of Captain James Blow, marine superintendent of the North China Steam-Sh