The steamship Strathleven, equipped by James Harrison, left Melbourne and arrived in London two months later, carrying 40 tons of frozen beef and lamb. It was made using the process Harrison himself had invented for Australian beer 28 years earlier. He had made another shipment in 1873, but it suffered a breakdown during the voyage, and the meat rotted. The first truly successful voyage of a ship carrying refrigerated food was that of the steamship Paraguay, arriving in Le Havre in 1877 with frozen Argentine meat.
