Wallaby travelled between Kāpiti and southern ports
Charles Bayley and Wallaby
Captain Charles Bayley’s career belongs to the mobile whaling world linking Kāpiti and the southern ports. The vessel Wallaby appears in the collection’s accounts of Kāpiti in 1842, including its movement between whaling grounds and ports.
The documentary trail is developed in Rhys Richards’s Captain Charles Bayley: Whaling Master 1813–1875 (2014), alongside Whale Song’s records of Wallaby. Vessel movements, crew changes and catches belong to the same maritime story, but should be read from the dated entries rather than treated as one undifferentiated voyage.
Sources: Rhys Richards, Captain Charles Bayley: Whaling Master 1813–1875 (2014); existing WhaleLIBRARY Bayley and Wallaby records.
Richards describes Wallaby visits in 1842 to Cloudy Bay, Kāpiti, Mana, Port Nicholson, Port Cooper, Port Levy and Pegasus Bay, illustrating a connected whaling network.
Across the strait and south
Wallaby’s movements connect Kāpiti with ports and whaling grounds farther south. A ship could carry people, provisions, news and produce as well as participate in the hunt. Reading voyage notices in sequence reveals a network that a single place-based entry cannot show.
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