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Tempestuous Voyage - The Zealandia
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The New Zealandia At Port Chalmers. On September 28, in latitude 45.2 S., longitude 120.1 E., the barometer began to fall very rapidly, and the wind came out W.N.W., increasing to a heavy gale. The vessel was put under her two lower topsails and run before it. The gale increased to frightful viol...
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1860 - Auckland - White Wings Vol II. Founding Of The Provinces And Old-Time Shipping. Passenger Ships From 1840 To 1885
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Phoenix , 986 tons, Captain R. Brown, sailed from Liverpool 12th October, 1859, arrived 3rd February with 136 passengers (91 English, 29 Scotch, and 16 Irish). The Phoenix came south about and made the Snares 24th June. She was 10 days sailing up the coast to Auckland. Frenchman , 1156 tons, Capt...
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Early Coastal Craft - Chapter VII. — Port Of Napier
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The first vessel to enter the Iron Pot in the year 1857 was a small brigantine under the command of Captain Alex Blair , either the Esther or the Sea Serpent, of both of which he was in charge in the early days. His first appearance at Napier was in 1854. In 1866 he left Wellington for the Chatha...
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Good Land To Land Passage - The Rakaia
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After discharging and loading, Capt. Bone sailed again in 1881, and finished up another fine run to Auckland. the Rakaia left London on May 13 with saloon and steerage passengers, mainly married couples, destined for Vesey Stewart's settlement at Te Puke, but only finally left the Lizard behind o...
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The Matoaka - White Wings (volume I)
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Lost with all Hands. Considering the number of voyages that were made round the stormy Horn in the old sailing ship days the New Zealand trade was singularly free from disasters. Saddest of all epitaphs for a gallant ship is that of "missing." There is something so ominous and mysterious about it...
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The Josephine Willis
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Collision in the Channel—Run Down by Steamer—Seventy Lives Lost. A ship by which many prominent early settlers came out to New Zealand was the Josephine Willis , a brand new vessel of 1000 tons, that afterwards met with a tragic end in the English Channel. She sailed under the flag of Willis, Gan...
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[section] - The Invercargill
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The Invercargill . the Invercargill made her maiden voyage to Otago in command of Captain Tilly. Leaving Glasgow with 390 passengers on July 16, 1874, she sighted Cape Saunders on October 12, and anchored at Port Chalmers on October 14 after an uneventful passage of 90 days port to port. The foll...
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The Caroline - White Wings (volume I)
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the Caroline At Port Chalmers. the Caroline had previously brought immigrants to Dunedin. In 1874, under Captain Clyma, she sailed from London on March 25, and called at Queenstown, Ireland, to embark 301 passengers, and, sailing again on April 16, the ship called at St. Vincent on May 7, and sai...
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Captain Pottinger's Death - The Rangitiki
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Sailors are, or were, very superstitious, and a very interesting story has been told me by Captain F. A. Macindoe , of Wellington, concerning the death of Captain Pottinger on board the Rangitiki at Napier in the year 1897. Captain Macindoe, who made several voyages with Captain Pottinger as seco...
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The Oliver Lang
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The 300 passengers who came out in the Oliver Lang in 1859 had an exciting time. the Oliver Lang was a vessel of 1224 tons, commanded by Captain Mundle. She made her first appearance in Wellington in 1856, arriving there on December 19th of that year after a smart passage of 85 days from Liverpoo...
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[section] - Boarding The Ships
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For many years I have been requested by members of the Press and others to publish some of the experiences of the Auckland shipping reporters fifty years or more ago, when all intercolonial and foreign news, and all news south of Auckland, was obtained by "the man in the boat." In those days ever...
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On The Look-Out - Boarding The Ships
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Shipping reporting in the sixties was at the best of times strenuous work, and frequently meant getting up at daybreak no matter how late you had finished the night before. Repeatedly in the summer months I would be up from 5 a.m. until 2 a.m. next morning, because small vessels arrived at all ho...
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Nearly Run Down - Boarding The Ships
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As I have said before, fair weather or foul, we had to be out and about, and time and again I was down the Rangitoto Channel in a howling gale in an open waterman's boat. When the westerlies swept down from the Waitakere Ranges the work was not only hard but dangerous, and more than page 6 once I...
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Dark Night And Heavy Gale - Boarding The Ships
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On another occasion in the same year I had an exciting adventure which began one night, extended into the next day, and finished up by my paper bringing off one of those scoops which were the spice of journalistic life in those days. The ship Scimitar had arrived during the afternoon and reported...
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Fisticuffs - Boarding The Ships
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The duties of a shipping reporter were a pretty fair training for the "ring" away back in the good old days. When I left the "Southern Cross." in 1865, five men were tried in my place within two years, and I sometimes had a brush with my rival for the time being. Once when clambering up the narro...
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The Cattle Boats - Boarding The Ships
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There were in the early sixties during the years of the Maori War what were then considered some noted vessels trading from Australia to Auckland, such as the Claud Hamilton, the Auckland , the Otago , and the Prince Alfred, a craft of 700 tons, the last-mentioned being very little bigger than th...
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The Cattle And Coal Boats - The Cattle Boats
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Many an important bit of news was brought to Auckland by the "white wings" of the Circular Saw line, but as they were the regular traders they generally brought complete files of the Australian newspapers for the Auckland daily newspapers. It was the unexpected arrivals that used to lead to the "...
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Happy Days - The Cattle Boats
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It was these spasmodic cattle and coal boats that the active reporter marked for his own, and many a scoop was brought off by the early bird. The Auckland merchants, particularly those closely connected with shipping, such as Thomas Henderson , J. S. Macfarlane, S. J. Edmonds, Coombes and Daldy, ...
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The Te Kooti Massacre — How The News Came To Auckland. - Boarding The Ships
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An event which caused a great stir in Auckland, and in fact, throughout the colony, was the massacre of settlers at Poverty Bay by Te Kooti and his murderous band in December, 1868. The news of this horror was brought to Auckland by the Lord Ashley (Captan Worsp). She used to tie up on the wester...
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Clipper Days - Boarding The Ships
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I am eighty years old and somewhat, But I give to God the praise That they made a sailor of me In the good old clipper days. Then men loved ships like women And going to sea was more Than signing on as a deck hand, And scrubbing a cabin floor, Or chipping rust from iron, And painting—and chipping...
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