The Eleanor Lancaster, 71 days out of Sydney, opened the Australia–San Francisco run on 2 April 1849

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Ten substantiated 1849 arrivals at San Francisco from Australian ports — Sydney, Port Phillip, Port Adelaide and Hobart Town — deduplicated by vessel and ordered earliest first. The first vessel, the barque Eleanor Lancaster, is corroborated by eight pages; the remaining nine arrivals are single-sourced, drawn from one reconstructed 1849 ship-arrival chronology that states its own listings are not complete, so this is not every arrival that year.

The Eleanor Lancaster left Sydney on 21 January 1849 under Francis W. Lodge, arrived 2 April after a reported 71-day passage, and is described as the first of seven Gold Rush vessels from Sydney; her crew deserted on arrival and she ended as a bonded storeship. a.osmarks.net

One passenger-history transcription gives 1 April as a passenger’s California arrival, but the ship-arrival chronology and multiple voyage accounts give 2 April; this report uses 2 April for the vessel. a.osmarks.net

Reported passages ranged from 41 days (William Hill, arrived 18 April) to 105 days (Spencer and Star of China); later arrivals brought up to 44 passengers each. maritimeheritage.org

No earlier 19th-century arrival at San Francisco proper was substantiated, despite searches covering Yerba Buena and all major Australian ports; a 1796 voyage by Otter reached Monterey, not San Francisco, and is excluded as eighteenth century. maritimeheritage.org

Arrived	Vessel	Type	From	Departed	Master	Voyage detail	Sources	Source

Method: 10 substantiated 1849 San Francisco arrivals from Australian ports, deduplicated by vessel and sorted by arrival date. Dates are vessel arrival dates; passage lengths and passenger counts are as reported by the sources. Source count = corroborating pages per vessel. Across the 10 rows there are 2 independent hosts; one reconstructed 1849 chronology supplies 9 of 10 rows, and that chronology says its listings are not complete. Blank departure dates were not recorded.

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