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City of Edinburgh
There were three occassions in pre-colonial times that a ship called City of Edinburgh visted New Zealand. The first was in early 1810 when Captain Pattinson brought his charge into the Bay of Islands. Onboard were the four survivors of the Boyd attack. He later left for England via Peru. Nineteen years later on November 29 City of Edinburgh, Captain Clendon, sailed into the Bay of Islands on her voyage from Sydney to London. The third visit by a ship of this name was in 1837 when the Weller Brothers chartered City of Edinburgh at the end of the whaling season to collect the season's oil. When City of Edinburgh called at Otago she was the only vessel there and spent just over two weeks loading her cargo before continuing the voyage to London.
Catherine
One of the first whaling ships to become a regular visitor to New Zealand over an extended period, Catherine first arrived at the Bay of Islands in August 1814. Captain Robert Graham reported having witnessed the eruption of Sunday Island (Raoul) and subsequent emmission of masses of volcanic rock fragments and ash. The following winter Catherine spent a month in Sydney before heading back out to the fishery. After a visit to the Bay of Islands in early 1816, Catherine returned to England where after only 24 days she left again for her next South Seas whaling voyage. Under these conditions it is little wonder many men on ships formed a second 'marriage' with south sea island girls, despite having families in their homeland. Nineteen weeks after leaving Deal, Catherine arrived at the Bay of Islands, but only spent three days at anchor before sailing for the fishery. In March 1817 Captain Graham brought his ship into the Bay of Islands in need of repair, having run aground at Sunday Island. He had come from Curtis Island off the coast of Australia and William Hall from the Christian Mission Station assisted in repairing the ship. Captains and members of the mission society formed friendships that proved mutually beneficial. Captains were a lifeline to England, while missionaries were able to assist in establishing opportunities for captains to trade for provisions with Maori chiefs. This was certainly the case when William Hall took Captain Graham's mate Philip Tapsell and a boat load of crew from Catherine to Manawaroa to obtain a spar large enough for a mainmast on the ship. Once the spar was felled Hall arranged for local Maori to bring it down to Catherine, and the first mast to be obtained in New Zealand arrived at the Bay of Islands on July 14 1817. Catherine called at the Bay three more times during 1818 before sailing back to England with her cargo of oil where she remained for only two months. When she returned to New Zealand in November 1819, Captain Robert Graham was still at her wheel, and had with him a quantity of English goods which were received with delight by the mission. In 1820 Catherine was a frequent visitor to the Bay of Islands and her captain had by now learned the most profitable way of direct trade with Maori was through muskets. In July Captain Graham was reported to be trading gunpowder for potatoes. A year later Catherine's crew had taken 900 barrels of whale oil and her last noted visit to the Bay of Islands was in January of 1822.
Campbell Macquarie
In December 1820 Campbell Macquarie arrived at Sydney from Macquarie Island under captain John Beveridge with 12 tons of oil onboard. She departed Sydney mid way through the following year for Derwent, Captain Thomas Whyte, transporting sundries. In November 1821, Captain Barnard brought Campbell Macquarie for a short visit to the Bay of Islands from Sydney.
Cape Packet
Sailed from Sydney to New Zealand under Captain Edwards in April 1830. Cape Packet's master was Captain Hindson when she was recorded as arriving at Sydney in May 1833 having taken 190 tons of sperm whale oil from the south seas fisheries.
Cadmus
In 1833 when Cadmus called at Sydney her captain Jonathon Snowden reported her cargo as being 900 tons of sperm whale oil extracted from whales taken in the south seas fishery. Just the head of large sperm whale could yield as much as one ton of oil.
Carnarvon
A Bunn & Co ship, Carnarvon left Sydney in February 1834 with Captain Aldred as her master and Joseph Price as 2nd Mate. She was bound for the sperm whale fishery and was seen arriving at Coudy Bay in July. When Carnarvon arrived back in Sydney in February 1836, her crew had procured more than 800 barrels of oil.
Children
Chartered in 1835 by the Weller Brothers to convey stores to their whaling station in Otago on New Zealand's South Island. After delivering the provisions Children was then to visit other communities around the island to attempt to procure a cargo of flax for her return voyage to Sydney.
Cachalot
In August 1838 Captain Langlois of Cachalot tried to make official his purchase of Banks Peninsula from local Maori by asking them to sign a copy of the land sale document he had written in French. The chiefs obliged by signing the document through copying the design of their facial tattoo, or moko, onto it. For ownership of the entire pensinsula Langlois thought it just to pay the equivalent of six pounds worth of clothing and a pistol.
Map of New Zealand and the South Pacific by Antonio Zatta. Image courtesy of www.prints.co.nz
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Calder
Captain Peter Dillon made his third visit to the Bay of Islands in July 1823 when he arrived from Sydney on Calder on a trading voyage. After spending ten days in New Zealand Captain Dillon sailed Calder for Peru, and returned on the same ship in February 1825. On this occasion he had come from the South Pacific Islands where he had also been trading. After refreshing at the Bay of Islands, Calder and her crew continued their journey to Sydney.
Caroline
One of the busiest vessels to operate off the coast of New Zealand in pre-colonial times, the cutter Caroline, Captain Peter Williams, arrived in Sydney from New Zealand with a cargo of seal skins and flax in January 1829. On her next return trip she brought 220 seal skins from New Zealand along with 30 tons of potatoes. It was in this year that Peter Williams on Caroline met John Guard on his vessel Waterloo at Chalky Inlet when Waterloo was on her way to the sealing grounds south of New Zealand. This was an auspicious meeting in early New Zealand European history. Guard's shore station in Tory Channel was probably only marginally ahead of that established by Bunn & Co in Preservation Inlet, which Captain Williams managed. Shore stations were a new concept in the whaling industry and these two boats and their captains were at the forefront. From 1830 Caroline crisscrossed the Tasman transporting flax, seal skins and oil between Preservation Station on the south coast of Fiordland and Sydney. The first cargo of oil registered as coming from Preservation station reached Sydney in August 1830. It was during this year that captaincy of Caroline transferred to Captain Farley and the following year Joseph Price formerly of Vittoria joined the cutter's crew to New Zealand. In April 1832 Caroline arrived at Sydney with news that Weller Bros shore station at Otago had been burned to the ground shortly after its completion. The few regular whalers and traders that worked off the coast of the South Island often made stops around the island's small but growing communities at Cloudy Bay, Otago, Bluff, Stewart Island and Preservation. In March 1833 George Bunn purchased Sydney Packet to transport cargo as Caroline was now working in the sealing grounds. Her captain for this work was Anglim and his first sealing expedition was successful, his crew procuring 1000 seal skins. Also on board were two New Zealand Maori women. After leaving Sydney Anglim sailed Caroline back to the sealing grounds of Auckland Islands. While there the crew was dismayed to find many tons of wreckage from a ship, but were unable to determine the name of the ship or from where she came. The wreckage included cargo of wool, oil and shipping stores. In March 1834 Caroline arrived back in Sydney with 350 seal skins and it was at this time that Captain Anglim transferred to Lucy Ann, and Captain Bruce took over as master of Caroline. On her trip back to Sydney in September 1834 Caroline was severely damaged by weather during the crossing.
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