South Australian was a composite-hulled clipper ship that was built in Sunderland in 1868 and sank in the Bristol Channel in 1889.

William Pile built South Australian at North Sands, Sunderland, launching her on 24 February 1868 and completing her that July.

[1] Captain David Bruce supervised her building, and she was named by a daughter of Henry Martin, a South Australian part-owner.

On 13 February 1889 while on a passage from Cardiff to Rosario, Argentina loaded with railway rails and fishplates, she ran into a gale off Lundy and the captain decided to run before the wind.

[8] In 1986 members of the Ilfracombe & North Devon Sub-Aqua Club found South Australian's cargo of iron at a depth of 42 metres (140 ft) in the Bristol Channel.