Ships and Voyages of the Cook Strait Maritime World
A chronological record of 56 vessel appearances and voyages, from the earliest encounters through the nineteenth-century whaling trade.
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56 records
| Date / period | Vessel | Master / captain | Named crew / passengers | Location / arrival | Voyage / event | Right-whale oil | Sperm oil | Other / unspecified oil | Baleen / whalebone | Flax | Other cargo / trade goods | Whales caught |
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| 1792 | Britannia | Thomas Melvill | Dusky Sound / New Zealand waters | Vessel in maritime research | ||||||||
| 1814 | Active | Thomas Hansen | Bay of Islands / Sydney | Vessel in maritime research | ||||||||
| 1816 | Mermaid | Edwards | New Zealand coast | Vessel in maritime research | 90 tuns (research account) | |||||||
| 1818 | Jefferson | John Piper | Whangaroa / New Zealand | Vessel in maritime research | ||||||||
| 1823 | Waterloo | John “Jacky” Guard | Taranaki coast / trans-Tasman | Guard trading voyage | ||||||||
| 1824–1826 | Samuel | Cook Strait approaches | Vessel in maritime research | |||||||||
| 1827 | Lynx | John “Jacky” Guard | Tory Channel | Vessel in maritime research | ||||||||
| 1827 | Waterloo | John “Jacky” Guard | Cook Strait / Sydney | Vessel in maritime research | ||||||||
| 1828 | Adventure | John Agar Love | Taranaki / Cook Strait | Vessel in maritime research | ||||||||
| 1828 | Waterloo | John “Jacky” Guard | Te Awaiti / Port Underwood | Whaling station provisioning and trading | ||||||||
| 1830 | Elizabeth | John Stewart | Kāpiti / Akaroa | Vessel in maritime research | Approximately 30 tons (charter arrangement in Trust research) | |||||||
| 1832 | Caroline | John William Dundas Blenkinsop | Wairau / Cook Strait | Vessel in maritime research | ||||||||
| 1832 | Courier | Kāpiti / Cook Strait | Vessel in maritime research | |||||||||
| 1832 | Dragon | Cook Strait / Cloudy Bay | Vessel in maritime research | |||||||||
| 1832 | New Zealander | Porirua / Kāpiti | Vessel in maritime research | |||||||||
| 1832 | William Stoveld | Kāpiti / Cook Strait | Vessel in maritime research | |||||||||
| 1834 | Harriet | John “Jacky” Guard | Taranaki coast | Vessel in maritime research | ||||||||
| 1835 | Mary and Martha | Coffin | New Zealand waters | Vessel in maritime research | 2,000 barrels (research account) | |||||||
| 1835 | Vigilant | Samuel Swain | Bay of Islands | Vessel in maritime research | ||||||||
| 1836 | Caroline | Kāpiti | Vessel in maritime research | |||||||||
| 1836 | Jasper | Evans | Cloudy Bay | Vessel in maritime research | 1,200 barrels (research account) | |||||||
| 1836 | Juno | Cloudy Bay / Cook Strait | Vessel in maritime research | |||||||||
| 25 August–12 October 1837 (individual date not transcribed) | Bee | Gluvins | Not recorded in this entry | Off Kāpiti | Vessel recorded in 1837 shipping list | |||||||
| 25 August–12 October 1837 (individual date not transcribed) | Caroline | Cherry | Not recorded in this entry | Off Kāpiti | Vessel recorded in 1837 shipping list | |||||||
| 25 August–12 October 1837 (individual date not transcribed) | Dublin Packet | Clayton | Not recorded in this entry | Off Kāpiti | Vessel recorded in 1837 shipping list | |||||||
| 25 August–12 October 1837 (individual date not transcribed) | Isabella | Maughan | Not recorded in this entry | Off Kāpiti | Vessel recorded in 1837 shipping list | |||||||
| 25 August–12 October 1837 (individual date not transcribed) | Louisa | Hayward | Not recorded in this entry | Off Kāpiti | Vessel recorded in 1837 shipping list | |||||||
| 25 August–12 October 1837 (individual date not transcribed) | Marianne | Mansford | Not recorded in this entry | Off Kāpiti | Vessel recorded in 1837 shipping list | |||||||
| 25 August–12 October 1837 (individual date not transcribed) | Persian | Hopton | Not recorded in this entry | Off Kāpiti | Vessel recorded in 1837 shipping list | |||||||
| 25 August–12 October 1837 (individual date not transcribed) | Roslyn Castle | Richards | Not recorded in this entry | Off Kāpiti | Vessel recorded in 1837 shipping list | |||||||
| 25 August–12 October 1837 (individual date not transcribed) | Samuel Cunard | Not recorded | Not recorded in this entry | Off Kāpiti | Vessel recorded in 1837 shipping list | |||||||
| 25 August–12 October 1837 (individual date not transcribed) | Sea Witch | Newson | Not recorded in this entry | Off Kāpiti | Vessel recorded in 1837 shipping list | |||||||
| 25 August–12 October 1837 (individual date not transcribed) | Taiaroa | Hempleman | Not recorded in this entry | Off Kāpiti | Vessel recorded in 1837 shipping list | |||||||
| March 1837 | Dublin Packet | Peraki / Banks Peninsula | Brought Captain Hempleman and two whaling gangs | |||||||||
| 1839 | Honduras | Tory Channel | Vessel in maritime research | |||||||||
| 1839 | Magnet | Bruce | Waikouaiti / Otago | Vessel in maritime research | 80 tuns (research account) | |||||||
| 1839 | Tory | Captain Edward Chaffers | William Wakefield (New Zealand Company agent) | Cook Strait / Kāpiti | New Zealand Company voyage and negotiations | Trade goods exchanged in negotiations (individual quantities in Trust research) | ||||||
| 1839 | Tory | Kāpiti / Tory Channel | Vessel in maritime research | |||||||||
| 6 June 1839 | Dublin Packet | Otago Head | Shipwreck | |||||||||
| 1840 | Erie | Dennis | Stewart Island / southern NZ | Vessel in maritime research | 1,800 barrels (research account) | |||||||
| Reported in account published June 1840 | John Dunscombe | Not recorded | Not recorded in this entry | Long Point, Kāpiti Island | Schooner at anchorage | |||||||
| Reported in account published June 1840 | Justine | Not recorded | Not recorded in this entry | Long Point, Kāpiti Island | Barque at anchorage | |||||||
| Reported in account published June 1840 | Susannah Ann | Not recorded | Not recorded in this entry | Long Point, Kāpiti Island | Schooner at anchorage | |||||||
| Reported in account published June 1840 | William Wallace | Not recorded | Not recorded in this entry | Long Point, Kāpiti Island | Barque at anchorage | |||||||
| 1842; crew departure reported 12 May 1842 | Wallaby | Charles Bayley | Not recorded in this entry | Kāpiti, Mana and southern New Zealand ports | Whaling vessel voyage | 12 right whales (NZ-wide 1842 voyage) | ||||||
| September 1842 | Jane | Not recorded | Not recorded in this entry | Wellington shipping notice; not necessarily Kāpiti | Port shipping list | |||||||
| September 1842 | Lady Mary Pelham | Not recorded | Not recorded in this entry | Wellington shipping notice; not necessarily Kāpiti | Port shipping list | |||||||
| Return reported 15 October 1843 | Fortitude | Not established from available transcription | Not recorded in this entry | Port of return not established in available extract | Whaling vessel return | 167 tuns | 17 tuns | 7 tons | ||||
| 1868–1870 | Othello | Ellis | Southern New Zealand | Vessel in maritime research | 65 tuns (1870 cruise, research account) | |||||||
| 1880 | Chance | Paddy Gilroy | Riverton / southern NZ | Vessel in maritime research | 40–60 tuns (research account) | |||||||
| 1894 | Rebecca Jane | Cook | Cook Strait | Vessel in maritime research | 15–20 tuns (research account) | |||||||
| 1830s | Cumberland | William Darby Brind | New Zealand waters | Vessel in maritime research | 240 tuns (research account) | |||||||
| 1830s–1840s | Hind | Kakaha (attribution in research) | Hokianga / Sydney | Vessel in maritime research | ||||||||
| 1870s | Splendid | Barrett | New Zealand / Pacific | Vessel in maritime research | 120 barrels (research account) | |||||||
| Early Wellington settlement era (precise date not established in this register) | Aurora | Not recorded | Not recorded in this entry | Wellington/Cook Strait maritime context | Vessel mentioned in pilot account | |||||||
| Early Wellington settlement era (precise date not established in this register) | Cuba | Not recorded | Not recorded in this entry | Wellington/Cook Strait maritime context | Vessel mentioned in pilot account |