Editing Cutty Sark (section)

===Wool trade===
[[File:Cutty Sark - waiting in Sydney Harbour for the new season's wool.jpg|thumb|right|upright|''Cutty Sark'' in Sydney Harbour awaiting a cargo of new season's wool, {{c.}} 1890]]

In December 1883, ''Cutty Sark'' departed [[Newcastle, New South Wales|Newcastle]], New South Wales with 4,289 bales of wool and 12 casks of tallow, arriving in London in just 83 days. This was 25 days faster than her nearest rival that year and heralded the start of a new career taking Australian wool to Britain in time for the January wool sales.

From 1885 to 1893, ''Cutty Sark'' was run between England and New South Wales under the agency of the Sydney-based Dangar, Gedye & Co.<ref>{{cite book|last=Fraser|first=A.D.|title=THIS CENTURY OF OURS – Being an Account of the Origin and History during One Hundred Years of the House of Dangar, Gedye and Malloch Ltd, of Sydney|date=1938|pages=100–110|publisher=Hallstead Press Pty Limited|location=Sydney}}</ref> In 1885 [[Richard Woodget]] was appointed captain on a salary of £186 per year (£23,729.80 in 2019 when adjusted for inflation) and continued to improve on the fastest trip record, achieving 77 days on his first outward trip and 73 days returning to Britain from Australia. He achieved this by taking a more southerly route than previously, to catch the strongest winds in the [[Roaring Forties]] despite having to face icebergs, gales and storms whipped up by the winds he sought. ''Cutty Sark'' was the fastest ship on the wool trade for ten years. In July 1889 the log of the modern passenger steamship {{SS|Britannia|1887|6}} recorded that when steaming at 15 to 16 knots she was overtaken in the night by a sailing ship doing 17 knots, which proved to be ''Cutty Sark''.
{| class="wikitable"
|+ ''Cutty Sark''{{'}}s wool runs{{sfn|Carr|1964|p=5}}
! Year    !! From           !! To      !! Days
|-
| 1883–84 || Newcastle, NSW || Deal || 82
|-
| 1884–85 || Newcastle, NSW || Dock || 80
|-
| 1885 || Sydney || Downs || 73 (67 to Ushant)
|-
| 1887 || Sydney || Lizard || 70
|-
| 1887–88 || Newcastle, NSW || Lizard || 69
|-
| 1888–89 || Sydney || London || 86
|-
| 1889–90 || Sydney || London || 75
|-
| 1890–91 || Sydney || London || 93
|-
| 1891–92 || Sydney || Lizard || 83
|-
| 1893 || Sydney || Antwerp || 98 (90 to Bishop's Rock)
|-
| 1893–94 || Sydney || Hull || 93 (87 to Scilly)
|-
| 1894–95 || Brisbane || London || 84
|}