In 1863, she left Plymouth on 15 July and arrived in Adelaide on 26 September, making the entire journey in 73 days, equal to the 1860 record of Yatala,[5] considered the fastest on the route until the advent of Torrens.

James Norval Smart in 1867, William Begg in 1869–1872 (previously of Sebastian and Coonatto), and Thomas L. Wadham in 1874–1876 all succeeded Captain Legoe, formerly Celstial.

On the night of 26 May 1870 in mid-Atlantic between Brazil and West Africa, a lookout aboard The Murray saw a ship on fire, and Begg made his towards it.

It was the Italian barque Mannin Barabino, out of Genoa, bound for the River Plate (Puerto Rico) with a cargo of spirits.

[2] The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, holds a lithograph of the Clipper Ship 'The Murray' (1861) by Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton.