The first truly successful voyage of a ship carrying refrigerated food was that of the steamship Paraguay, which arrived in Le Havre in 1877 with frozen Argentine meat. James Harrison had actually attempted this in 1873, but his system suffered a breakdown during the voyage, and the meat rotted. Harrison tried again in 1879 with the steamship Strathleven, and this time succeeded: it left Melbourne and arrived in London two months later, with 40 tons of frozen beef and lamb. It was made using the process Harrison himself had invented for Australian beer 28 years earlier.
