Captain Charles Bayley: Whaling Master 1813–1875
Captain Charles Bayley: Whaling Master 1813–1875 — Rhys Richards; ed. Graeme Broxam — 2014
The historical record
Captain Charles Bayley: Whaling Master 1813–1875 — Rhys Richards — 2014
A whaling master in the Cook Strait world
Captain Charles Bayley was a whaling master whose career extended across the nineteenth-century Pacific and Australasian whaling industry. His movements help place Kāpiti's shore stations within the wider network of vessels and ports serving the industry.
Rhys Richards's Captain Charles Bayley: Whaling Master 1813–1875 (2014) provides the biographical research context for Bayley's career; the library also preserves separate entries for the vessel Wallaby and the shipping records associated with his movements.
Source: Rhys Richards, Captain Charles Bayley: Whaling Master 1813–1875 (2014); WhaleLIBRARY vessel records.
Bayley and the coastal shipping network
Captain Charles Bayley’s story connects pelagic and coastal whaling with the ports and landing places of southern New Zealand. The vessel Wallaby appears in the library’s Kāpiti shipping research, including reports of crew movements and a right-whale catch in 1842. A captain’s career is best reconstructed from successive voyages rather than from a single anecdote.
Following vessels through the record
The Wallaby and Fortitude entries provide companion stories about Bayley-era voyages and changing whaling fortunes. Shipping notices, port returns and contemporary newspaper accounts help distinguish a vessel’s presence at Kāpiti from a proven catch at a particular station. The library preserves the individual documentary leads so readers can trace each voyage.
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Explore connected history
- Charles Bayley and Wallaby at Kāpiti in 1842
- Charles Bayley and the Wallaby at Kāpiti
- Charles Bayley research discussion addendum
- Bayley career catch estimates
- captain charles bayley whaling master 1813 1875
- Wallaby crew absconded at Kāpiti
- Wallaby travelled between Kāpiti and southern ports
- Wallaby 1842 right-whale catch
- Fortitude 1843 return
Follow this history into other books
Continue with these connected accounts. Each opens a separate book with its own evidence and perspective.
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