Barnveld Family | Clipper Ship City of Adelaide

Open daily 10am - 3pm (weather permitting).

Cost $20pp, $30 couple, Under 16 years free

Bookings not required (except for large club groups).

Adults with young children are responsible for their supervision, to ensure their safety, and for the comfort of other visitors.

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Daily tours : Open 10am - Close 3pm

Expiry date of any voucher, including Groupon, extended by 12 months

CLIPPER SHIP CITY OF ADELAIDE

Dock 2, Honey St, Port Adelaide

The world's oldest surviving composite clipper ship

Mary Douglas Barneveld (nee Coles) later Horn, and her 2 daughters joined the City of Adelaide in Gravesend, London on 1st June and arrived in Adelaide on the 19th August 1871.

Mary wrote a diary of the 1871 voyage of the City of Adelaide. A copy of one page of the scanned version is below and a transcript of the diary is available.

Mary Douglas Coles

Mary's daughters Mary Ellen Barneveld and Edith Jane Barneveld, taken in Adelaide about 1873.