The time of her passage was twenty-six days, eight under steam and eighteen under sail.

Stephen Rogers, her navigator, in a letter to the New London "Gazette," wrote that the "Savannah" was first sighted from the telegraph station at Cape Clear, on the southern coast of Ireland, which reported her as being on fire, and a king's cutter was sent to her relief.

"But great was their wonder at their inability to come up with a ship under bare poles.

After several shots had been fired from the cutter the engine was stopped, and the surprise of the cutter's crew at the mistake they had made, as well as their curiosity to see the strange Yankee craft, can be easily imagined." From Liverpool the "Savannah" proceeded to St.Petersburg, stopping at Stockholm, and on her return she left St.Petersburg on October 10th, arriving at Savannah November 30th.

But the prestige that the journey had won did not compensate for the heavy expense.