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==First voyage to New Zealand== |
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The ''Matoaka'' first sailed with about 100 passengers from London to New Zealand under Captain Stevens on 13 June 1859 on the [[Clipper route|clipper route. She arrived at Wellington on 13 September and then sailed north to Auckland on 17 September 1859. Off [[Castlepoint]] she ran into a northerly gale which split several of her sails and forced her to hove-to for twelve hours.<ref>Shipping Intelligence. Port of Auckland, Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVI, Issue 1255, 27 September 1859, Page 3</ref> |
The ''Matoaka'' first sailed with about 100 passengers from London to New Zealand under Captain Stevens on 13 June 1859 on the [[Clipper route|clipper route]]. She arrived at Wellington on 13 September and then sailed north to Auckland on 17 September 1859. Off [[Castlepoint]] she ran into a northerly gale which split several of her sails and forced her to hove-to for twelve hours.<ref>Shipping Intelligence. Port of Auckland, Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVI, Issue 1255, 27 September 1859, Page 3</ref> |
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The migrants on board the ''Matoaka'' included [[Thomas Ball (New Zealand politician)|Thomas Ball]]. His family and a group of some 80 migrants he had gathered together had arranged settle at [[Mangonui]] under Government sponsored land grants.<ref>http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2b4/ball-thomas</ref> |
The migrants on board the ''Matoaka'' included [[Thomas Ball (New Zealand politician)|Thomas Ball]]. His family and a group of some 80 migrants he had gathered together had arranged settle at [[Mangonui]] under Government sponsored land grants.<ref>http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2b4/ball-thomas</ref> |
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Revision as of 00:22, 17 September 2014
The Matoaka was a full rigged 1092 ton wooden American ship built in 1853 for Willis and Gann Co. She was sold to Shaw Savill Co by 1859.[1] Between 1859 and 1869 she made eight voyages to New Zealand. Her fastest run from Bristol to Lyttelton, New Zealand was 82 days in 1862. On 13 May 1869 she left Lyttelton for London under Captain Alfred Stevens with 45 passengers and 32 crew but was never seen again.[2]
First voyage to New Zealand
The Matoaka first sailed with about 100 passengers from London to New Zealand under Captain Stevens on 13 June 1859 on the clipper route. She arrived at Wellington on 13 September and then sailed north to Auckland on 17 September 1859. Off Castlepoint she ran into a northerly gale which split several of her sails and forced her to hove-to for twelve hours.[3]
The migrants on board the Matoaka included Thomas Ball. His family and a group of some 80 migrants he had gathered together had arranged settle at Mangonui under Government sponsored land grants.[4]
Icebergs
On 25 December 1867 while sailing from London to Lyttelton she sailed into a vast feild of ice-bergs in the South Indian Ocean in about near Kerguelen Island. Some of the bergs were described as 300ft to 400ft in height.
Bird life
Captain Stevens brought out English song birds for the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. In 1867 arrived with a large number of starlings, larks, blackbirds, thrushes, pheasants, and partridges. He followed this in 1878 with twelve pairs of thrushes, 77 pairs of blackbirds, 22 house sparrows, 7 redpoles, 1 yellow-hammer, 1 pair bramble finches, and 1 robin.
List of voyages
- Liverpool to Sydney - sailed on 21 February 1855[5]
- London to Wellington/Auckland - sailed 13 June 1859 arrived Wellington 13 September and Auckland 26 September under Captain Stevens (she was noted as the largest vessel to sail for New Zealand to that date[6])
- London to Lyttleton - sailed 4 September 1860 arrived Lyttleton 1 December
- London to Lyttleton - sailed 20 November 1861 arrived Lyttleton 10 February 1862
- London to Auckland - sailed 23 September 1864 arrived Auckland 3 January 1865 under Captain Barnett
- ? to Port Chalmers - sailed ? arrived Port Chalmers 3 July 1865 under Captain Stevens
- London to Lyttleton - sailed 7 October 1866 arrived Lyttleton 10 January 1867 under Captain Stevens
- London to Lyttleton - sailed 16 November 1867 arrived Lyttleton 11 February 1868
- London to Lyttleton - sailed 12 November 1868 arrived Lyttleton 8 February 1869
- Lyttleton to London - sailed 13 May 1869 - missing without trace
References
- ^ English shipping, Lyttelton Times, Volume XII, Issue 709, 24 August 1859, Page 4
- ^ http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bre01Whit-t1-body-d102.html
- ^ Shipping Intelligence. Port of Auckland, Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVI, Issue 1255, 27 September 1859, Page 3
- ^ http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2b4/ball-thomas
- ^ Shipping intelligence, Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 20, 6 June 1855, Page 2
- ^ By electric telegraph - Arrival of the Salsette at Adelaide, Wellington Independent, Volume XV, Issue 1347, 19 July 1859, Page 6