Pericles, named after the Athenian leader Pericles, was a 1,598 ton, iron hulled, three masted sailing ship, that was built by W. Hood & Co of Aberdeen, and launched in July 1877 to transport wool for the Aberdeen Line. Trips to Australia Pericles was a fast ship and her maiden voyage from London to Melbourne took 71 days. She continued to be used on the passenger route to Australia, arriving in Sydney from London, via Plymouth on 5 December 1877 and 10 November 1878. On 31 July 1879 en route to Sydney she grounded on Pericles Point near the Helford River in thick fog. Pericles had a close call as Penere Point is near The Manacles, a reef which has claimed over one hundred ships. Two hours later, on a rising tide, she refloated and continued on her journey to Sydney. The following day her fore peak was found flooded and Captain Largie turned the ship around and returned to Plymouth for repairs. Trip to Fiji She made a trip to Fiji carrying 461 Indian indentured labourers and arriving at Suva on 3 July 1884. There was an outbreak of cholera during the voyage, with thirty-five cases being reported and twenty deaths. Sale and scrap In 1904, Pericles was sold to a Norwegian buyer and changed ownership twice more before being renamed Sjurso in 1916. She was scrapped at Kiel in September 1923.

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Notable quotes

“Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.”
— From Plutarch, Lives, Pericles, sec. 18. See also the following source provided by the "1000 Quotes Project": Plutarch. Plutarch’s Lives, Vol 3. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin. The Macmillan Co: New York. 1916. Pg 59 or 60. Archived from the original on November 10, 2022. The aforementioned source is available online as The Parallel Lives by Plutarch published in Vol. III of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1916.
“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”
— As quoted in Homage to Greece (1943)
“Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.”
— As quoted in The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper (1966). Book II, chapter 40.
“Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves”
— 2.37
“Nor is it any longer possible for you to give up this empire … Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.”
— Book 2, chapter 63: Pericles' third speech
“Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.”
— As translated by Richard Crawley (1951)

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Overview

Pericles, named after the Athenian leader Pericles, was a 1,598 ton, iron hulled, three masted sailing ship, that was built by W. Hood & Co of Aberdeen, and launched in July 1877 to transport wool for the Aberdeen Line. Trips to Australia Pericles was a fast ship and her maiden voyage from London to Melbourne took 71 days. She continued to be used on the passenger route to Australia, arriving in Sydney from London, via Plymouth on 5 December 1877 and 10 November 1878. On 31 July 1879 en route to Sydney she grounded on Pericles Point near the Helford River in thick fog. Pericles had a close call as Penere Point is near The Manacles, a reef which has claimed over one hundred ships. Two hours later, on a rising tide, she refloated and continued on her journey to Sydney. The following day her fore peak was found flooded and Captain Largie turned the ship around and returned to Plymouth for repairs. Trip to Fiji She made a trip to Fiji carrying 461 Indian indentured labourers and arriving at Suva on 3 July 1884. There was an outbreak of cholera during the voyage, with thirty-five cases being reported and twenty deaths. Sale and scrap In 1904, Pericles was sold to a Norwegian buyer and changed ownership twice more before being renamed Sjurso in 1916. She was scrapped at Kiel in September 1923.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.”
— From Plutarch, Lives, Pericles, sec. 18. See also the following source provided by the "1000 Quotes Project": Plutarch. Plutarch’s Lives, Vol 3. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin. The Macmillan Co: New York. 1916. Pg 59 or 60. Archived from the original on November 10, 2022. The aforementioned source is available online as The Parallel Lives by Plutarch published in Vol. III of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1916.
“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”
— As quoted in Homage to Greece (1943)
“Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.”
— As quoted in The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper (1966). Book II, chapter 40.
“Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves”
— 2.37
“Nor is it any longer possible for you to give up this empire … Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.”
— Book 2, chapter 63: Pericles' third speech
“Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.”
— As translated by Richard Crawley (1951)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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