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Captain Adair commanded the Lurline 1878-1884
Captain George Adams commanded the Peter Denny 1865 - 1874
Captain J. T. Adams commanded the Soukar 1874 - 1876, Hurunui 1877, Wairoa 1878-1881
Evening Post, The Evening Post 21 December 1912, Page 7
Captain Joseph Tyndall Adams, in the earlier days well known in New Zealand shipping circles, died at the Taita this morning. Captain Adams, who was born in London in 1842, went to sea at an early age in the ship Norfolk, and after a few years at sea, while still a young man, he reached the position of chief officer of the s.s. Soukar� one of the last vessels to carry passengers Home from India round" the Cape of Good Hope. Shortly after the Soukar left India on his first voyage the captain died, and Mr. Adams, who was then only about 23 years of age, navigated her to England, and on arrival was given the command. He served in the Indian trade for some years, and when the Soukar was purchased by the Shaw Savill Company Captain Adams came to New Zealand in her. That was in the early 70s. He commanded the Soukar for ten years, and shortly after the New Zealand Shipping Company was formed he transferred his services and was given command of the Hurunui, on her second voyage, in 1876. He afterwards commanded the Wairoa, in which he made a number of voyages to Wellington, and the Wanganui. When the latter vessel was sold, in 1888, Captain Adams settled down at the Taita, where he has lived quietly ever since. He was married twice. He leaves three sons (the eldest being Mr. E. C. Adams, of the Union Company, Wellington), and two daughters by his first wife, and four sons by his second wife, who survives him.
Captain Joseph Adams commanded the Wanganui 1883-1886
Captain Alexander commanded the Prince of Wales 1842
Captain Alexander commanded the Duke of Portland 1852 to Lyttelton
Captain Alexander commanded the Roselyn Castle 1871
Captain Alexander commanded the Glenhuntly 1872
Captain Allan in command of the Clontarf 1859
Captain Joseph Allan commanded the Ballarat 1864 -1869
Captain John Allan commanded the John Bunyan,
1000 tons, 1864
Captain J. Allen commanded the H.H. Willis & Co.
packet Lord William Bentick, 650 tons, in 1852
Captain Alsop commanded the Asterion 1889
Captain Alsop commanded the Hermione 1899 -1904
Otago Witness 3 March 1898
Death: ANDERSON - On the 24th Feb., at the hospital, Captain John J. Anderson
(late s.s. Waikare); aged 57 years.
Captain Anderson commanded the Thurland Castle 1874. Had formerly been chief officer of the Dallam Towers
Captain Frederick Anderson, late of the Yorkshire, commanded the clipper steamship Durham in 1874
Captain Anderson commanded the Agnes Muir 1872-1874
Captain Anderson commanded the Canterbury
1875
Captain W. Anderson commanded the Trans-Tasman
s.s. Easby, 1489 tons, register, in 1878
Captain Andrews commanded the Pareora 1875
Otago Witness 17 April 1901 pg 69
Capt. Arthur F. Anthony - USSCo.
Born in London in 1862 and went to sea in 1876. Nearly 11 years on the s.s.
Tarawera, ten years of this period under Capt. W.C. Sinclair. He joined the
company as fourth officer and before he had left had command of the Rotokini,
Dingadee, Pukaki and the last two years the Kawatira, in the W.C. Tasmanian
trade.
Captain John Lythcote
Applewhaite, H.C.S. commanded the barque
William Hyde in 1852 to Lyttelton. He died 27th
May 1869 at his residence, Hyde Park, Sydney, of syncope [heart disease], s/o
Philip Lythcote Applewhaite of Barbadoes, W.I. and nephew of E.A. Applewhaite,
Esq., J.P. of Pickerham Hall, Norfolk. SMH 16 June 1869. Marriage: At the
age of 16, Lucy Hannah Langdon married 30-year old, Barbados-born English
Mariner, John Lithcot (or Lythcote) Applewhaite on 12 September 1849 at St
Lawrence's Anglican Church, Sydney. John was Captain of the 532-ton barque the
William Hyde and the couple spent the early years of their marriage at
sea and in port in London, Adelaide and also New Zealand in Lyttelton,
Canterbury and New Plymouth. Their eldest daughter Mary was born aboard ship at
Port Adelaide in 1850, and their son Philip was born in Christchurch in May
1852. In 1861 the Applewhaites took up positions in the Immigration Office and
Immigration Depot and moved into the Hyde Park Barracks.
pg 86
Edward Archer APPLEWHAITE ABT 1770 in Christ Church, Barbados, W.I. married 4
AUG 1791 in Saint Michael, Barbados to Mary LYTCOTT b: 12 MAR 1774 in Barbados.
Son Philip Lytcott APPLEWHAITE was Christened 28 DEC. 1796 Christ Church,
Barbados.
Applewhaite, Edward Archer, 1812-17. Son of Edward A. Applewhaite, of Barbados,
b. 1800. Of Pickenham Hall, Norfolk.
Applewhaite, Philip Lythcott, 1808-14. Brother of the Edward, of Barbados, b.
1795. Queens Coll. Oxf. Died Barbados, 1835.
Daily Southern Cross, 26 October 1849, Page 2
The barque William Hyde, 533 tons, Capt. Applewhaite, arrived at
Hokianga on the 2nd inst., from Sydney, to load spars for London. Passengers,
Mrs. Applewhaite and servant, Mr. W. H. Cunningham, and Dr. Frankis.
New Zealander,
15 December 1849, Page 3
Shipping Intelligence. (Auckland)
ARRIVAL Dec. 13.� William Hyde, 533 tons, John Lythcote Applewhaite, H.C.S.,
commander, from Hokianga. Passengers : Dr. Frankis, Mrs. Applewhaite, Mrs. and
the two Misses Hobbs, Capt and Miss Young, Messrs. Gunning, Motte, and
Cuninghams, Brown and Campbell, Agents.
New Zealander,
7 December 1850, Page 2
Adelaide. Arrivals.� Oct. 26 William Hyde,
barque, 533 tons, Applewhaite, from London 22nd and Plymouth 28th July.
Daily Southern Cross, 28 December 1849, Page 2
Dec, 27.� "William Hyde," 533 tons, Capt. J. L Applewhaite, for London.
Passengers. Mrs. Bolland and servant, Mrs. Applewaite, Dr. and Mrs. Carr, Mr.
Motte, and Dr. Frankis.� Brown and Campbell, agents.
New Zealander, 22 March 1851, Page 2
Arrived: March 20� William Hyde, 650 tons, J. L. Applewhaite, from Kaipara, with
a cargo of Spars for the Admiralty. Passengers � Mrs. Applewhaite, Mr. White,
Dr. Kemball � Brown & Campbell, agents.
Daily Southern Cross, 8 April 1851, Page 2
Cleared Out. April 7.� William Hyde, 533 tons, J. L. Applewaite, commander, for
London. Passengers� The Hon. Miss Clinton. Mrs. Pitt, Miss Pitt, Miss S.
Pitt, Miss C. Pitt, Mr. A. Pitt, Captain Pitt, Mrs. George Pitt and three
children, Lieut. Page, Mrs. Page, Miss Morton, Mrs. Applewaite and child, Dr.
Kemball, two male servants, 4 female servants.
New Zealander, 13 December 1851, Page 2
Times (July 31) thus notices the arrival of the William Hyde:� The
contract ship William Hyde, Captain Applewaite, with Burra Burra copper ore from
Port Adelaide, ore and flax from Auckland, and spars from New Zealand for the
dockyard, arrived last evening. She left Auckland on the 9th of April, touched
at Pernambuco on the 14th, and sailed there from on the 17lh of June.
Passengers: �The Hon. Miss Clinton, niece to the Duke of Newcastle; Mrs. Pitt,
widow of late Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's forces at New Zealand, three
Misses Pitt, and five children ; Captain Pitt and lady, 80th Regiment; Lieut.
Page and lady, 58th Regiment; Miss Morton ; Dr. Campbell, one of the Emigration
Commissioners' surgeons; Mrs. Applewaite and child, and five servants. Emigrants
are much required at New Zealand, where farm labourers are getting from �20 to
�23 per annum besides rations.
Lyttelton Times, 7 February 1852, Page 5
Arrived: Feb. 5, barque William Hyde, 532 tons, Applewhaite, from
London and Plymouth, Oct. 24th. Passengers, Rev. A. Cotton, Mr. Joseph Brittan,
Mrs. Brittan, and 4 children, Miss Fookes, Miss Louisa Fookes, Miss Mary Fookes,
Miss Curtis, Messrs. Greenstreet, Alstitt, Moore, Cuff, and � Cuff, and 88 in
the steerage.
New Zealander, 15 May 1852, Page 2 Arrivals
May 14�William Hyde, barque, 533 tons, Applewhaite from Hokianga, with
70 Contract spars, 20 pieces baulk timber, and 18 bales wool. Passengers�Mrs and
Miss Applewhaite, Mr W. Applewhaite, Dr Moore, and Mr. Paul. �Brown & Campbell,
agents
Philip Lythcott Applewhaite
Born: 24 May 1852 Auckland, NZ to John & Lucy Applewhaite
Otago Witness 19 June 1852, Page 2
The barque William Hyde, Capt. Applewaite, a regular trader between New
Zealand and England, grounded while crossing the bar of the Hokianga river at
Auckland. Her cargo has been ordered to be discharged.
Daily Southern Cross, 12 November 1852, Page 2
The William Hyde, Captain Applewhaite, from Auckland the 29th
September, arrived in Sydney on the 19th, and tailed again for Melbourne on the
26th ultimo.
New Zealander, 29 September 1852, Page 2 Departures:
Sept. 28� William Hyde, barque, 535 tons, J. L. Applewhaite for Melbourne.�
Additional list of passengers being chiefly ihose of the wrecked brig Ceres,
transshipped to the William Hyde from the brig Daniel Watson from Feejee
Lyttelton Times, 1 January 1853, Page 7
Died, �Nov. 14th, at St. John's College, Auckland, the Rev. Arthur Oswald
Cotton, m.a., late Chaplain of the " William Hyde."
Daily Southern Cross, 22 April 1853, Page 2
Cleared Out. April 21 � William Hyde, barque, 532 tons, J. L. Applewhaite, for
Melbourne. Passengers, Capt. Liddel, Mrs. Brown, Miss Whelsh, Mrs. Applewhaite
and two children, J. Buck, G. Turner, J. Wilson, B. Smith, W. Smith, W. Walker,
H. Watson, Mrs. Watson, J. Harper. T Moyle, J. Rogers, A. Smith, T. Hancock, J.
Scholes, W. F. Gilberd, M Monro, W Champion, J Spicer, J. Gilberd. J. Adamson,'
T. Marshall, M. Tekin, J. Mills, T. Anderson, A. Gibbons, G. Williams, A. Moore,
C. Callagher, A. Scott, A. Scholleck, H. Haifitt, J. Malone, W. Pickergill.
Brown and Campbell, agents.
Captain William Ashby. Claimed to have carried more passengers to New Zealand than any other commander. He considered his passengers, and did everything to make them comfortable. He retired from the sea in 1872 and appointed the first Marine Superintendent in London for the newly formed New Zealand Shipping Company. After the death of his first wife, who generally travelled with him, he married the widow of Mr J.N. Crombie, a photographer in Queen St. Auckland during the sixties. Commanded the Mary Ann in 1858 -59, the Maori, Siam 1865 till 1868, City of Auckland until 1870 - 1872. He had a �5000 interest in the City of Auckland. One of the cadets on board the Marlborough when she went missing on her homeward journey from Lyttelton in 1890 was the stepson of Captain William Ashby. Photo WW Vol. 1 pg19
Captain Atkin commanded the Queen of the Mersey 1862 - 1863
Captain Atkin commanded the Columbus 1870s
Captain Auld commanded the Famenoth 18774-1883
Captain Ayling commanded the Miltiades 1890
Captain Ayles commanded the Waimea 1874
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Captain Edwin S. Babot went to sea as an
apprentice in 1846. He first came to NZ as chief officer of the Wild Duck,
and made two voyages in that ship under Captain Bishop. He came out to Auckland
as master of the ship Maori and to Lyttelton in 1864 as commander of the
William Miles. He was in command of the Water Nymph when she was
driven ashore at Oamaru in 1867. He took command of the Hydaspes. until
she sunk in 1878 in the English Channel. He then commanded the
Northumberland to Wellington. Upon his return to London was appointed marine
superintendent for the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co. In 1884 he arrived in
Wellington and occupied a similar position in NZ. He died in Wellington about
1920. photo WW pg 96, Vol. 1.
Captain Bailey commanded the Parsee 1883
Captain Baillie in command of the Wild Duck 1871 - 1873
Captain Hugh Baird commanded the beautiful
Aberdeen clipper ship Alexandrina in 1867
Captain John Baker commanded the Adelaide Baker,
British ship, 800 tons, in 1866
Captain Banks in command of the Euterpe1881, 1895 & 1896. Photo WW Vol. 1 pg 127
Captain Banks commanded the Rakaia 1888
Captain A. Barclay commanded the Sir Edward Paget 1850
Captain A.W. Barclay in command of the Clontarf 1860
Captain Barclay commanded the Northampton 1874
Captain Barclay command the Orari 1881
Captain Barclay commanded the Hurunui 1881
Captain Barclay command the Wairoa 1882
Captain Barnett commanded the Cashmere 1863
Captain William C. Barnett commanded the Matoaka 1865
Captain Barrett commanded the Saint Vincent. Transferred to the South Australian.
Captain James Barrow commanded the Saint Vincent 1st January 1869. Mr Stringer first officer. Total wreck at Wellington. Two survivors.
Captain J.O. Barrow in command of the Huntress in 1863
Captain Bate commanded the Zealandia1891- 1901. He had previously commanded the Langstone 1894-1895.
Captain J.M. Baxter commanded the Waipa
1882-1883
Captain Gorn commanded the Waipa for five years, and on his last trip
in 1883, died when off the Cape of Good Hope. The ship was brought on by the
chief officer, Mr. Baxter.
Captain Beaven commanded the Oxford 1874
Captain Begg commanded the Sebastian, one of Willis
Gann & Co.'s line of packets to Canterbury via Otago in 1859.
Captain Bennett commanded the Loch Tay. He was third mate on the Nimroud to Auckland in 1864 under Captain Oughton. He left her to serve in the Maori War, sent to the front lines, was wounded a fortnight later, and recovered before the ship left, and re-joined the ship as he was not fit for duty. He first came out as an apprentice in 1861 to Wellington in the Albermarle. Later Bennett joined the Loch line as mate of the Clanranald and then the Loch Rannoch. He retired from the sea in 1892. In command of the Loch Vennachar in 72, 75.
Captain Charles George Best, was chief officer on the Ida Zeigler and later harbour master at Tauranga and the Thames.
Captain Bidwell commanded the Merwanjee Framjee 1863 and on.
Captain Birdie in command of the Rob Roy 1860.
Captain Thomas Bishop command the Halcione on her maiden voyage 1869- 1873. He made some fifteen voyages to Wellington previously in the Wild Duck 1860 - 1869. Commanded the Avalanche in 1875 when she sank.
Daily Southern Cross, 25 April 1876, Page 2 Death.
BISHOP � On January 31, at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, dearly loved and deeply mourned, Captain Thomas Bishop, late master of the New Zealand Line Passenger Ships 'Wild Duck', 'Halcione' and 'Avalanche'; aged 45.
Captain Black command the City of Glasgow 1874
Captain Black commanded the Loch Dee 1877-1882
Captain William Black commanded the A1 clipper barque Prospector in 1869 - to Hog Kong from Dunedin.
Captain Tom Boiling had been in service of the Shaw and Savill Company for many years, in command of the Akaroa 1882-1886, and Invercargill 1892- 1905, was a fearless and experienced sailor. He remained in the Invercargill until she was sold in 1905. At this time he had been 50 years at sea and eventually came out to the Dominion and settled in Christchurch. He was chief officer on the St. Leonard's under Capt. Petherbridge to Auckland in 1873 and Mr McDonald was the second officer, and he as the one on the Ben Venue when she wrecked at Timaru, and was one of the three survivors of the Cospatrick.
Captain H.W. Boorman was in command of the
Halcione when she was wrecked when attempting too enter Wellington
January 8 1896. He had previously been in command of the Lady Jocelyn
1882,
Lyttelton in 1886 when she was abandoned in Timaru Harbour, Euterpe, Akaroa and Oamaru 1889.
Otago Witness 18 June 1886, Page 8
The Lyttelton was first commanded by the late Captain Hood, and on his
decease by Captain Strang, now of the Union S.S. Company's service, who upon
leaving the Lyttelton was succeeded by Captain H. W. Boorman, her present
commander, whose second voyage in her it was ; Captain Boorman served his time
on board the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's ship Lady Jocelyn and
passed through every grade, from apprentice to master, in that fine vessel, and
we are sure his many friends in the colony will regret to hear the misfortune he
has sustained.
Captain Boorman commanded the Halcione 1892 -1894
Captain J Bone. Made 52 voyages to New Zealand. Said a sailor's life is not
all beer and skittles. He was an apprentice on the City of Auckland under
Captain Ashby in 1870. Four years later he joined the NZ Shipping Company as
third officer - his first appointment as an officer. He was first of the
company's trained men to be in command both of sail and steam. He made two
voyages with the Rakaia then on the Ionic, and transferred to the
Tongariro,
after three voyages took command, Captain Hallet being transferred to the
Rimutaka. He made 26 voyages in the Tongariro and then took command of the
Ruahine. He completed 18 voyages in this ship. and was then
appointed marine superintendent for the company in Christchurch for three years
then moved to Wellington. He resigned at the end of 1924 after 50 years of
service. Mr Massey has known him since 1870 as he came out to NZ on City of
Auckland. Photo WW Vol. 1 pg 288
Captain James Bowden in 1861 commanded the
inter-colonial Royal Mail CO. steamship Prince Alfred
Captain Thomas "Tom" Bowling had been in the service of the Shaw Savill Company for many years in command of the Akaroa 1882-1885 took command of the Invercargill 1892-1899 relieving Captain Muir 1876-1891. Tom was chief officer on the St. Leonards 1873 voyage to Auckland under Captain Pertherbridge. Captain Tom Bowling of the Adamant 1877-1881. His brother, Mr William Bowling, was the chief mate, of the Avalanche when she sank in 1877.
Captain Bowling commanded the Glenlora 1884
Captain Harry Bowling was in command when the Trevelyan was reported missing in 1888. Harry was the younger brother to Captain Tom Bowling.
Captain Tom Bowling in command of the Invercargill 1892-1899
Captain Boyd commanded the Pladda 1862
Captain Boyd commanded the Robert Henderson 1867
Captain W.B. Boyd. Commanded the Piako 1878-1888. He was the chief officer on the Loch Awe to Auckland. The Hurunui 1875. He commanded the Rangitiki for one voyage. Later he was appointed agent in Dunedin for the New Zealand Shipping Company and after many years of service left for England and died there on April 9 1899.
Captain Braddick commanded the Countess of
Kintore 1873 - 1875
Captain Braddie Nov. 1872 The 'Countess of Zintore'
sails for London, on the 7th November, under command of Captain Braddie, late
chief officer 'Hydaspes,' Captain Reynolds having resigned through ill-health.
Captain Braddock commanded the Oxford 1881 - 1883
Captain Hugh Baird, commanded the Aberdeen clipper, Alexandra, 670 tons register, in 1866.
Captain Bristow commanded the Norwood to Auckland in 1861 - 1866
Captain James Broadhouse commanded the Antiope 1919. Formerly chief officer on the Canterbury with Captain Collingwood. He was also second officer on the Zealandia under Captain Bate.
Captain Brown commanded the Donna Anita 1867 - he died at the Equator, and his wife and child were put on a passing ship and returned to England
Captain Brown commanded the Forfarshire 1879-1883
Captain Brown commanded the Christian McCausland 1870
Captain D.D. Brown commanded the Chandiere, 470 tons, A1 barque 1874 - 1880
Captain Brown commanded the Hannibal 1875 to Nelson
Captain Alex. Brown command the Mataura 1877 - 1881. He was chief officer on the Adamant before being in command of the Mataura.
Captain J.B. Brown commanded the clipper ship A.W. Stevens in 1865
Captain W. Brown commanded the Helenslee 1864-1868 and the clipper barque Sea Toller, 1870
Captain William Brown commanded the John Duncan, 1,000 tons, in 1863
Captain Brown command the Waitara 1882-1883. Sunk in the English Channel. Collided with the Hurnuni in 1883.
Captain Langlands and Captain Alexander Buchan in command of the earlier Timaru 1865-1869 made five visits to Port Chalmers.
Captain Budd commanded the Fernglen 1880 - 1881
Captain Budd commanded the Rangitiki 1891-1896
Captain Bongard commanded the Pareora 1885
Captain Bungard command the Wairoa 1887 - 1890
Captain B. Bruce in command of the Glentanner 1857
Captain Burgess commanded the Alice 1874-1875
Captain Burch commanded the Chile 1872
Captain Thomas L. Burch commanded the Queen Bee 1873 - 1875 then took command of the Adamant. Captain Burch commanded the Adamant 1875. He was given to drink. Died six weeks before the vessel reached Bluff in 175. Buried at sea.
Captain Burton commanded the Asterion 1890
Captain Burton was in command of the Jessie Readman when she wrecked on the Chathams in 1893.
Captain Burton commanded the Crusader 1894 - 1897
Captain Burton was in charge of the Pleiades when wrecked and had his certificate suspended for six months in 1899.
Captain Butt living in Auckland in 1878. His son at the age of 14 drowned when the Schiehallion was wreck.
Captain John Byron commanded the Cashmere 1859
Captain Warren Frederick Caborne command the Waitara 1876 - 1877. Died suddenly July 14 1924 at Toppington Hall, Shropshire.
Captain Campbell commanded the James Nicol Fleming 1876
Captain Campbell commanded the Dallam Tower 1875
Captain Campbell commanded the Antiope 1917
Captain Carden commanded the Bebington 1881
Captain Carden commanded the Margaret Galbraith 1884 -1892
Captain Carden commanded the Soukar 1896
Captain Canese commanded the Waimea 1883-1885
Captain F. Canese commanded the Waimate 1886-1892, and the 4050 tons register s.s. Tekoa in 1895 -1897
Captain Canese commanded the Hermione 1893 -1897
Captain Canese commanded the Wellington 1897
Captain Caney commanded the Josephine Willis 1854-56. Collision in the Channel, 70 lives lost including the Captain.
Captain Cann commanded the Loch Fergus 1876-1879
Captain Canney commanded the Lord W.
Bentinck, 600 tons, in 1852.
Captain Carnell commanded the Helen Denny 1890 - 1893
Captain Carruthers commanded the Coronilla 1885
Captain Carey commanded the Norman Castle 1873-1874
Captain William Cargill formerly of the 'Frisco mail steamer Australia died in Sydney, .c July 28 1902.
Captain Caroline commanded the Mary Shepherd 1873
Captain G. Case commanded the Salisbury 1876
Captain Casey owner of the p.s. Lady Bowen 1874, Auckland
Captain Cass in command of the Caduces 1859-1860
Captain J Catnach commanded the Warrior 1865
Captain Catnach commanded the Warrior Queen 1866
Captain Cawse commanded the Ocean Mail 1875 to Auckland
Captain Cawse commanded the Cariolanus 1879 - 1880
Captain Cawse commanded the Western Monarch 1887
Captain Chamberlain commanded the Don
1902 to Wellington
Captain Robert Chambers commanded the Jura
in 1860-62
Captain Chambers commanded the Ulcoats
1864 - 1865
Captain E. Chapman commanded the H.H. Willis & Co.
packet Simlah, 750 tons, in 1852
Captain Chapman commanded the Sir Edward Paget 1853
Captain Chapman commanded the Queen of Beauty 1863
Captain Chapman command the Carnatic, 871 tons built in 1867, 1875. Photo WW Vol. 1 pg 276
Captain Chapman command the Mataura 1894
Otago Witness December 26 1900 page 54
The Union Steam Ship Company's Monowai, Captain H.W.H. Chatfield, with passengers and cargo from Melbourne via Hobart and the Bluff, arrived at Port Chalmers early on Thursday morning, and after awaiting high tide, steamed up to Dunedin. She left Melbourne at 5.30 p.m on
the 12th inst. She left Sydney on Thursday afternoon.
Captain Clachie commanded the Loch Fleet 1880 - 1881
Captain Chachrie commanded the Loch Fergus 1887
Captain Christie command the Accrington 1863
Captain Clare commanded the Northampton 1877
Captain Clark commanded the Chariot of Fame1864
Captain Clark commanded the Tauton 1875
Captain Hugh Clarke commanded the Blue Jacket 1859
Captain William Clayton commanded the Ellora in 1877
Captain Cleary commanded the Helenslee 1872
Captain H.C. Cleaver command the Captain Cook 1863
Captain Clyma commanded the Caroline 1874
Captain Cobb commanded the Nelson in 1864 -65
Captain Cochrane commanded the Tauton 1874
Captain Cochrane commanded the Loch Fleet 1882
Captain Collingwood commanded the Asterion 1883-1888. Photo WW Vol1. pg 226
Captain Collingwood commanded the Forfarshire 1890
Captain Collingwood commanded the Margaret Galbraith 1895 - 1896
Captain Collingwood commanded the Canterbury 1898 - 1902, had been transferred from the Margaret Galbraith
Captain J. Colville commanded the ship Moeraki, 1865
Captain W. Colville commanded the Commodore in 1865
Captain Colville commanded the barque Hudson 1879
Captain Colville commanded the May Queen 1880 - 1888
Captain Colville commanded the Blenheim was the Wanganui, re-named. 1891-1899
Captain Congalton commanded the Robert Lowe 1860
Captain John E. Cooper commanded the 1007 tons Echunga in 1866
Captain Coot commanded the Mary Shepherd 1866 - 1867
Captain Thomas Cornwall, commanded the Royal Stuart 1855, 1862, 1864
Captain Cornwall, R.N.R. commanded the Pegasus 1865 - 1866
Captain Cottier commanded the Rangitiki 1885
Captain Coster commanded the Portland
1869. Took over from Captain Smith in Auckland.
Captain John E. Couper commanded the Echunga
to Timaru in 1865
Captain Cow commanded the Himalaya 1866 -1867
Captain Cowan commanded the 1050 ton Dauntless 1863
Captain David Cowan, from Peterhead, Scotland, master of the Wellington when she first launched in 1875 to 1893. He made 19 voyages to NZ before taking over he commanded the Wild Deer, Helenlee 1871 and Margaret Galbraith 1873, and other ships running to the Dominion. Photo WW Vol. 1. pg 50
Captain Cowell command the Waitara 1879 - 1880
Captain Craighead commanded the Ballarat 1867
Captain Harry Cracroft commanded the Hurunui 1881 - 1892
Captain Cracroft commanded the Rakaia 1890
Captain Crawford commanded the Janet Court 1874
Captain Crispin commanded the Allahabad 1873
Captain John Edward Croker commanded the Halcione 1874 - 1877 and Soukar 1879 - 1889. 1871 was chief officer on the Celaeno.
Evening Post,
9 October 1907, Page 1
CROKER.� On the 8th October, on passage of s.s.
Blenheim from Blenheim to Wellington, Captain
John Edward Croker. of heart failure. Private interment at 2.30 p.m. to-morrow,
Thursday, from 15 Wellington-terrace.
Marlborough Express, 11 October 1907, Page 4
Capt. Croker, who dropped dead on the deck of the steamer Blenheim on
Tuesday night, was at one time captain of the ship Soukar, and as
master of that vessel underwent many perilous experiences, among them being that
of going into Wellington with all the bulwarks washed away. Mr Harry Martin, of
Blenheim, served under Capt. Croker as third mate of the Soukar, and
had heard him described as one of the best skippers sailing to the Colonies.
Captain Croker commanded the Langstone 1878
Captain Croker commanded the Weathersfield 1896
Otago Witness, 13 June 1906, Page 65
An Eketahuna message states that Captain Crone an old colonist, aged 74, died on
the 5th it. Dec. was captain of the vessel which brought the first diggers to
Otago goldfields. He was afterwards a lighthouse keeper.
Captain Crowell commanded the Sam Mendel 1881
Captain Cruickshank command the Mataura 1884 - 1886
Captain W. Culbert commanded the Star of Tasmania 1862 -1867. Was in command when she wrecked at Oamaru.
Captain William Culbert commanded the Chile 1869-1870
Captain J. Culbert commanded the Robert Henderson 1871-1872
Captain Andrew Culbert, a Scotsman, in command of the Dover Castle in 1875. He was accompanied by his wife and a child was born on Dover Castle on a homeward voyage from Bolivia. He was named William and when grown followed the sea and later commanded several ships sailing out to New Zealand. Subsequently in 1905 he was second officer on the Shaw Savill and Co.'s Kumara.
Captain Culbert commanded the Himalaya 1880 -1885
Captain A. Culbert commanded the Pleione 1886 - 1888
Captain Culbert commanded the Akaroa 1890
Captain A. Culbert commanded the Canterbury 1891-1898
Captain Culbert commanded the Himalaya in 1882
Captain Culbert commanded the Margaret Galbraith 1900
Captain Cumming commanded the Loch Fergus 1881
Captain J. Cumming commanded the Essex in
1878
Captain Cummings commanded the Loch Doon 1880
Captain Cummings commanded the Sam Mendel 1880
Captain A. Cumming commanded the clipper Henrietta in 1860
Captain Cumming commanded the Loch Bredan 1886 to Auckland
Captain W. Cumming commanded the Prince of Wales 1889, formerly a White Star Line officer.
Captain Cumming commanded the Loch Ken
1879
Otago Witness, 19 December 1885, Page 13
The flags of the vessels in port were displayed half-mast high on Monday in
token of respect to the late Captain J. W. Cumming, officer-in charge of the
Observatory at Port Chalmers, and for many years past marine surveyor here.
Marlborough Express, 7 September
1891, Page 2 DEATH.
On the 4th July, at Cheefoo (China), suddenly, John William Cumming, commander
C.S N. Company's s.s. Tamsui; eldest son of the late Captain Cumming, of Port
Chalmers, and of Mrs Cumming, of Blenheim, N.Z. Aged 34 years.
Captain William Cumming, harbormaster at Gisborne, retired 1913
Captain W.A. Curry commanded the City of Dunedin 1870 - 1872, late of the Lady Egidia.
Captain E.B. Curthoys commanded the Chile 1863-1864
Captain J. Cuthbert commanded the 1801 tons s.s. Elderslie in 1890
Captain F.S. Dalison commanded the Helvellyn 1863
Captain Dalrymple commanded the Queen of the West 1877
Captain Danvers commanded the Countess of Seafield 1864
Captain Darke in command of the Blairgowrie
1875 to Lyttelton
Captain Frederick Davies, commanded the clipper
brig Robertina in 1859
Captain Lewis Davies of Cardiganshire, a maritime county of south Wales, was in command of the Cardigan Castle to Lyttelton in 1873 and 1876.
Captain Llewellyn Davies of Newport was master of the "Pleiades" 1875-76 and the "Crusader" 1876-83, both sailing to Australian and NZ waters. There is good evidence that he broke the record for sail (67 days) when Master of the "Crusader" to London from Lyttelton in 1877.
Captain Davies commanded the Dunloe 1880 to Auckland
Captain Davies commanded the Pudsey Dawson 1854 to Wellington
Captain Davis commanded the Don Anita 1865 and the Tiptree 1864 both to Lyttelton.
Captain John Sayes Davis was in command of
Queen Bee when she wrecked at Cape Farewell 1877. The captain's
certificate was suspended for three years and the second mate's for two years.
Had held a master's certificate for seventeen years. Captain John Sayers Davis in command of the
Dallam Towers in 1873 when she was under jury rig.
Captain Davis commanded the Edwin Fox in
1875 to Wellington and was Captain of the Dallam Tower on her first
voyage to Otago.
Captain W. Davis commanded the Cornwall 1848
Captain G. Davis (Davies) commanded the Caroline 1880
Captain Davis commanded the Coronilla 1881
Captain Davis (Davies) commanded the Deva 1888
Captain Dawson was in command of the Weathersfield when he retired from the sea in 1893. For many years in the East Coast trade, first in command of the s.s. Maitia, in which he was wrecked at Red Mercury island and later in charge of the s.s. Kanieri. Died c. 22 May 1900, ?Wellington.
Captain Dent commanded the Queen Bee 1871
Captain de Steiger commanded the Hinemoa 1892
Captain Devitt commanded the Waimea 1876
Captain H. Devitt command the Otaki 1877
-1881. Photo WW Vol. 1 pg 265
Captain Dewar, ship Roman Emperor in 1860.
Captain Dice commanded the Queen of the North 1874
Captain Dixon commanded the Monarch 1854 to Auckland
Captain A. Donaldson commanded the Eastern Monarch 1874
Captain Donaldson commanded the Gareloch 1881 - 1883
Captain Donaldson commanded the Pareora 1883
Captain Donaldson commanded the Hurunui 1886-1887
Captain J.W.B. Drake, R.N.R., commanded the s.s. Ruahine in 1869
Captain Duncan commanded the Christian McCausland 1874
Captain James Duncan commanded the clipper barque Prospector in 1866
Captain Dunlop commanded the Pladda 1861
Captain Dunlop commanded the Surat in 1864 to Auckland
Captain Edmonds commanded the Nimroud 1862-3
Captain R. Edmonds commanded the Baron Aberdare 1875
Captain Edwards commanded the Routenbeck 1887
Captain Eldsen, R.N.R. commanded the Hereford 1874 to Lyttelton
Captain J. Elliott commanded the clipper ship Eclipse for Shaw, Savill, & Co. in 1860-61
Captain Ellis commanded the Empress 1863
Captain J.E. Ellis, of the barque Philip Laing, married Clementina, eldest daughter of the Rev. T. Burns, at Otakou, the Rev. T. Burns, officiating. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, 24 June 1848, Page 2
Captain A. Elmslie in command of the Cospatrick when she burned at sea in 1874.
Captain Embry commanded the Ironsides 1882
Captain Emmett commanded the Dunbritton 1880 to Port Chalmers
Captain Emmett commanded the Algoa Bay 1881 to Wellington
Captain Esson commanded the Columbus after Captain Atkin
Captain Evans command the Rhea Sylvia 1861 to Lyttelton
Captain H. Evans commanded the Light Brigade 1864- 1868
Captain Evans commanded the Taranaki
1894-1899
Evening Post, 19 April 1915, Page 6 OBITUARY CAPTAIN Edgar
J. EVANS
The death of Captain E. J. Evans, marine superintendent for the Shaw, Savill,
and Albion Company, which occurred at 3 o'clock yesterday morning, removed one
of the best known figures in shipping circles in New Zealand. He had sustained a
severe apoplectic fit on Friday morning, and never regained consciousness. The
late Captain Evans was born on 17th April, 1854, at Sketty, near Swansea, South
Wales, and at the age of sixteen commenced his apprenticeship to the sea,
serving in sailing vessels trading between South Wales and the West Coast of
South America. After serving as officer in steamers and sailing vessels trading
to the United States, the Black Sea, and India, he obtained his certificate as
extra master at the age of 25, and in a few months joined Sir Donald Curries
Castle Line of steamers trading between England and South Africa. In 1884, when
the South African trade was in a declining condition after the peace of Majuba,
he left the Castle Line with several other officers and joined the Shaw, Savill,
and Albion Company as second officer of the Tainui, the predecessor of the
present ship of that name. On the retirement of Captain Barlow, who first
commanded the Tainui, Captain Evans was appointed to the command at the age of
35. In 1893 he went as the company's representative on board the former Arawa,
which was carrying troops to Cuba for the Spanish Government. He then returned
to the New Zealand trade, commanding in turn the Matatua, and the Aotea. In 1902
he was appointed Marine Superintendent in the North Island for the company, a
position which he held up to the date of his death. The late Captain Evans
leaves a widow, two daughters, and one son (Mr H. E. Evans, barrister and
solicitor, who is on the staff of Messrs. Bell, Gully, Bell, and Myers). The
remains of the deceased will he interred at Karori to-morrow. The cortege will
leave Captain Evans's late residence, 242, Vivian-street, at 9.30 a.m., and will
proceed to St. Peter's Church, and thence to Karori. In September, 1883, he was
an officer of the Castle liner Pembroke Castle when she cruised among the
islands off the coast of Scotland and Copenhagen, the party including (Sir
Donald Currie. the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Lady Tennyson, and the present
Mrs. Asquith. At Copenhagen, Queen Alexandra (then Princess of Wales), and, her
daughters, the late Tsar of Russia. (Alexander III.), the King and Queen of
Denmark, and the King and Queen of Greece, were entertained on board the ship.
Flags were flown at half-mast by the ships in port yesterday and by the Harbour
Board.
Welsh Mariners: 1876
address: Ash Cottage, Sketty, Swansea
Captain Everett commanded the Crownthorpe
1876 -1885
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Captain Falconer command the Jessie Osborne 1876 Photo WW Vol. 1 pg 278
Captain Falconer commanded the Otago 1882.
Captain Fauckner commanded the Warwick
1883
Captain Farquhar commanded the Thames steamer
Rotomahana 1883
Captain Featherstonhaugh commanded the Chapman 1865
Captain Fenton commanded the Aboukir 1875
Captain Fergusson [Ferguson] commanded the Margaret Galbraith 1877-1882
Captain Fergusson commanded the Langstone 1879-1882
Captain W. Fernie commanded the AA1 iron barque Irvine, 655 tons 1880.
Captain Findlay command the Piako 1883
Captain Fletcher command the Grasmere 1897
Captain H.J. Fletcher commanded the Pitcairn Island 1906
Captain Foote command the Gladys in 1902 to Wellington.
Captain Foote commanded the Asterion 1891-1898
Captain Foreman command the Invererne
1874-75
Captain W. Forsayth commanded the Harwood, for
Shaw, Saville, in 1860 -1864
Captain Forsdick commanded the Rakaia 1886 - 1887
Captain Forsdick commanded the Waipa 1887-1891
Captain Forsdick commanded the Waitangi
1893 - 1894
Captain Forsdock commanded the Rangitiki
1897-1898
Captain Foster commanded the Joseph Fletcher 1852-1854
Captain Foster in command of the first Zealandia 1858-1865
Captain Fowler commanded the Rakaia 1885
Captain Fowler command the Orari 1900
Captain James Fox commanded the Charlotte Gladstone 1870 - 1872. He first came out to NZ as the chief officer on the British Trident when she arrived at Auckland in 1864. Captain J. Fox commanded the England for several years 1867. late of the ship England.
Captain Fox commanded the Forfarshire 1873
Captain J. Fox commanded the Rangitiki 1875
Captain Fox command the Orari 1875-1876
Captain Fox command the Wairoa 1891 - 1894
Captain Walter Frater commanded the Fernglen for six voyage. Retired from the sea in 1879. At about age 12 he ran away from home and joined a ship sailing for Calcutta, and returned six months later. His father had the lad properly indentured but an error was made in entering his name Fraser instead of Frater, with the result that throughout his seafaring career he was known as Captain Fraser. He received a mate's certificate at age 26. He made two voyages in the Ferndale to NZ. He lived to be 87. Passed away at his residence at Parnell on June 21 1924.
Captain W. Frazer commanded the Ali May in 1877
Captain
J. Freebody commanded the Carisbrooke
Castle 1874 - 1875
Captain French commanded the Queen of the Deep 1864
Captain Friston commanded the Himalaya 1873 -1874
Captain Fullerton command the Aldegrove 1875 to Port Chalmers
Captain Duncan Fullerton in command of the Timaru 1881-1892
Captain Fullarton commanded the Crusader 1893
Captain Fullerton in command of the Oamaru 1894-1900
Captain Thomas Funnell commanded the Ganges
1863-1865
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Captain Gale commanded the James Nicol Fleming 1875
Captain Gamble commanded the Dunfillan 1870
Captain Gasson commanded the barque Hudson 1895-1897
Captain W.S. Gedge commanded the Celaeno 1874
Captain William Gibbons commanded the 1100 tons Victory 1863-1866
Captain Gibbons commanded the Lurline 1887 to Auckland. Capt. fell ill. Mr Laws took over.
Captain Joseph Gibson commanded the Midlothian 1851 to Lyttelton
Captain Gibson commanded the Egmont 1854-1860
Captain Gibson commanded the Jessie Readman 1879-1890
Captain Gilbert commanded the Queen of the Avon 1859
Captain John Gibb commanded the Thomasina
M'Lellan in 1876
Captain T. Gibbs commanded the clipper ship
Reulla Shaw, Savill, & Co. in 1860-61
Captain J. Gibson commanded the African, for Shaw,
Saville, in 1862 -1864
Captain T. Ginder commanded the H.H. Willis & Co. packet Stately, 800 tons, in 1852 - 1853
Captain Glazebrook commanded the Alastor 1858
Captain John Gleadow, died aged 75 in Napier c. Aug. 1. 1901. He came out to Australia about 40 years ago in charge of the ship Roseberry, coming on to NZ for the gold rush. He was appointed marine surveyor.
Captain J. Gondie commanded the Matilda Wastenback for Shaw, Saville & Co. in 1864
Captain Gordon commanded the Taranaki 1877-1890
Captain John Gorn commanded the Waipa 1880-1881, late of the Mataura 1875 - 1876. Captain Gorn commanded the Waipa for five years, and on his last trip in 1883, died when off the Cape of Good Hope. The ship was brought on by the chief officer, Mr. Baxter.
Captain Gorn commanded the Wellington in
1877 and later the Otaki.
Captain J. Goudie commanded the Matilda Wattenbach,
for Shaw, Saville, in 1862
Captain Gourlay commanded the Oban Bay 1891
Captain John Graham commanded the Robina Dunlop in 1876 - 1877 to Auckland
Captain Charles James Grant commanded the Melita in 1869
Captain Grant commanded the Adamant 1885-1893
Captain Grant commanded the Ballarat 1872
Captain Greenstreet command the Mataura
1882 - 1883. Photo WW Vol.1 pg 269
Wanganui Chronicle, 20 January 1910, Page 2
Captain Greenstreet is on his seventy-fifth voyage round the world. His voyaging
total up to about 1,880,000 mile's, and during his forty-three years of Service
he has seen the whole of the marvellous developments which have replaced the old
services of clipper ships with the floating palaces in which the people of
to-day traverse the world. Captain Greenstreet commenced his sailoring in 1866,
when he joined the training ship Worcester, and he made his first voyage in the
ship Holmsdale to Melbourne, China, and Japan. After voyages to New Brunswick,
1876, he joined the New Zealand Shipping Company's service, which he has not
since left. The company's fleet in those days consisted of many fine sailing
vessels, but none of them was of more than about 1000 tons. Till 1881 Captain
Greenstreet served as second and chief officer in .the Waimate, the Waimea and
the Waitangi. At the end ot that year lie received his first command, the barque
Mataura. She was the first vessel of the company's fleet fitted with
refrigerating machinery and cold storage space for mutton, and was the second
vessel so fitted to visit New Zealand; and the first cargo taken Home by her
turned out very well. His first command was also his last sailing vessel ; for
the exigencies of the frozen meat trade, so fast developing, called for
something faster and more reliable than sailing ships. So in 1883, he became
second officer of the new steamer Aorangi. Two years afterwards he became master
of the Ruapehu, and in three years made nine voyages to New Zealand. Next he
received command of the handsome clipper-bowed old steamer Rimutaka, since
superseded by another vessel of the same name. After eight voyages in her, he
brought out the new liner Ruahine. In 1892 he went back to the Rimutaka, and
made another fifteen voyages in her. Captain Greenstreet has been several times
given the honour of bringing new steamers out on their maiden voyages. In 1899
he took first charge of the Papanui, and when lie returned in. her another new
steamer, the Paparoa, was waiting for him. He only made two voyages in her, and
then took command of the present Rimutaka, which, until last year, he retained.
Last year he left the Rimutaka for the latest and biggest addition to the fleet,
the Ruahine, now in New Zealand waters.
Captain Greenwood commanded the Gareloch 1875
Captain Greeves commanded the Howrah in 1874 - 1875
Captain Gregory commanded the Willis, Gunn and Co. 579 ton Victory 1863
Captain Gregory commanded the Hindostan 1875
Captain Grieve commanded the City of Cashmere 1876-1879
Captain Griffiths commanded the Midolthain
to Wellington in 1876.
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Captain George Hadden,
commanded the Edward Thornhill, 525 tons register in 1864
Captain Haigh commanded the Laira 1898
Captain Hall commanded the Berar 1865
Captain J. Vine Hall commanded the s.s. Claud Hamilton in 1867 and s.s. Egmont in 11867
Captain W. Hall commanded the City of Dublin 1874 to Port Chalmers
Captain Harland commanded the Buckinghamshire 1874
Captain Harland commanded the Chapman 1856
Captain Hamon commanded the Opawa 1886 - 1891
Captain J.J. Hamon commanded the Turakina 1890 - 1896
Captain Isaac Harding commanded the s.s. Nebraska to North America in 1872
Captain Hardy commanded the Conflict 1874- 1876.
Captain Hardy commanded the Caroline 1884 to Dunedin with 240 of the 300 passengers rescued from the Wild Deer a month earlier.
Captain Harrington commanded the England 1871-1872
Captain W. Harris commanded the clipper ship Catherine Pemberton for Shaw, Savill, & Co. in 1860-61
Captain Harrison commanded the Nimroud 1860
Captain Haslam commanded the Waimea 1895
Captain Hawkins of the ship Northumberland in 1862
Captain Hazelwood [Haslewood] commanded the Hurunui 1881-1884
Captain Hedley commanded the Thames 1851 to Auckland
Captain Hedley commanded the Ironsides 1867
Captain Heigho commanded the Berar 1874-1875
Captain Hendry commanded the Robert Henderson 1868-1869
Captain Hendry commanded the William Davie 1870-1871
Captain Hendry commanded the Coromandel 1878 -1884
Captain Herd commanded the Calypso 1879
Captain Herd commanded the Chile 1885
Captain Herd commanded the Lochnager 1886
Captain Hird commanded the Taranaki 1880- Dec. 1883. At Port Chalmers given command of the Marlborough and Mr London, chief officer of the Taranaki took over the Taranaki. Capt. Anderson in charge of the Marlborough stayed in Pt. Chalmers to become Marine Superintendent to the Albion- Shaw Saville Co. at Port Chalmers Captain W. Herd was in command of the Marlborough when she was reported missing on the homeward journey in 1890. One of ten cadets on board was the stepson of Captain William Ashby.
Captain Hewer commanded the Janet Court 1890
Captain Hewson commanded the Tythpnus 1883
Captain John Hiatt, commanded the wool clipper ship Gloucester, 1000 tons burthen, in 1859
Captain Hicks in command of the Lutterworth when the ballast shifted and she was thrown on her beam in Cook Strait in 1906. Mrs Hicks was a passenger showed remarkable courage. Captain A. Davies, of the Marine Department, Auckland was the mate.
Captain Hicks commanded the Don 1908 to Nelson
Captain Highman commanded the Adamant 1875
Captain Hill commanded the Himalaya 1890 -1895
Captain Hill commanded the Anazi 1875-1880
Captain Hills commanded the Sam Mendel 1874
Captain Hinks commanded the Norman Castle 1876
Captain William Hird.
Otago Witness 17 January 1880, Page 15
On the 9th January, at the residence of Mr Robert Jack, Rothesay, West Harbour,
by the Rev. James Niven, Captain William Hird (ship Calypso), to Elizabeth,
daughter of the late James Alexander, Esq., Lintrathen, Forfarahire, N.B.
Captain Hodder commanded the Waikato 1874 and the Waitangi in 1876
Captain Holbeche command the Otaki 1881 - 1882
Captain E.A. Holbeche command the Wairoa 1883- 1886
Evening Post, 30 April 1887, Page 2
News has just been received (says the Christchurch Press of 28th inst.) of the death of Captain Holbeche, of the New Zealand Shipping Company's ship Wairoa, who died at sea on the 13th February. Captain Holbeche was only married a short time before leaving Lyttelton on the same trip Home. Aged 39 years.
Captain Holdcroft commanded the Weathersfield 1895
Captain Holder commanded the Waitangi 1876 -1880
Captain J. Holliday commanded the clipper ship Acasta for Shaw, Savill, & Co. in 1860-61
Captain Holton in command of the Caduces 1865
Captain H. Holton commanded the H.H. Willis & Co. packet Columbus, 650 tons, in 1852
Captain Holdritch commanded the Bebington 1876
Captain Holloway commanded the Star of India 1873-1874
Captain Holman commanded the Anazi 1873-1874
Captain Holt commanded the Devonshire
1862-1864
Captain A. Holton commanded the Columbus,
650 tons, in 1852.
Captain Homer commanded the Asterope 1870-1872
Captain Hood in command of the Oamaru
1876
Captain Hood had the first command of the
Lyttelton in 1878.
Captain Hopkins commanded the Star of Erin. Wrecked at Bluff Feb. 6 1891
Captain Peter Houston late commander of the Isabella Hercus died on 10th march, 1853. His death took place a few days prior to the vessels arrival in London, on her homeward voyage from Lyttelton, after trading in the eastern archipelago for the last two years. Lyttelton Times 3 Sept. 1853 pg6
Captain Thomas Houston commanded the Lady Milton in 1864 -1865 and Captain Thomas Houston commanded the England 1865
Captain I. Howieson commanded the iron barque Mendoza in 1874
Captain Hoyle commanded the Euterpe 1884 - 1885
Captain Hughes commanded the Laira 1891
Captain Hurray commanded the Ben Venue
1878
Captain J.B. Hurst commanded the s.s. Atrato
in 1874
Captain Hutchinson in command of the barque the
Antares 1894
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Captain Inglis commanded the
Ravenscraig to Nelson in 1861
Captain Inglis in command of the Excelsior in 1868
Captain D.B. Inglis commanded the Asterope 1869
Captain Inglis commanded the
Siberia 1870 to Lyttelton
Captain Irving
in command of the Excelsior in 1872.
He died while the vessel was at Port Ahuriri, Napier, and was
succeeded by his brother, who at the time was chief officer of the ship.
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Captain A.W. Jack commanded the s.s. Egmont
in 1867
Captain James Jackson commanded the Greyhound,
2500 tons burthen, in 1862
Captain Jaffray commanded the Samuel Plimsol 1902
Captain Charles James was for 31 years in the employ of the Shaw Savill and Albion Co., and was in command of their ships for over 25 years. He sailed the Auckland for twelve years 1889 -1901, the Helen Denny for five years 1883-1887, and the Westland for the last two voyages to the Dominion 1905 & 1906, and other ships. photo WW Vol. 1 pg 33.
Captain James command the Talbot 1864-1866
Captain James commanded the Helen Denny 1883 - 1887
Captain James commanded the Westland 1905 - 1906
Captain Jamieson commanded the Rakaia 1883
Captain Jamieson commanded the Waipa
1884-1885
Timaru Herald, 21 July 1887, Page 2
The many friends of Captain Jamieson, late of the New Zealand Shipping Company's
ship Waipa, will be sorry to hear of his death by consumption, in
London recently.
Captain Geo. Jenkins commanded the Lady Jocelyn 1872-1881. Photo WW Vol. 1 pg 43. found died in his cabin on a trip to Wellington
Captain Jeppson commanded the Asterion 1899
Captain Johnson commanded the Surat. Wreck New Years day at the Catlins in 1874.
Captain Jones commanded the Forfarshire 1875
Captain Jones commanded the Loch Cree 1878-1884
Captain Jones commanded the Loch Fergus 1883- 1884
Captain Jones commanded the Loch Fleet 1886
Captain J. Joss command the Wairoa 1877
Captain Keen command the Orari 1883 -1886
Captain Richard Kelly (born Appledore 1857) was master of the Halcione before he became master of the Westland.
Otago Witness Wednesday 26 December 1900 pg 54
Port Chalmers - Arrival
Dec. 18. Westland, ship, 1115 tons from Liverpool.
The ship Westland was towed up on the 18th inst., arriving at the lower end of
the Rattray street wharf at 2 p.m. On this occasion she is in command of
Captain
Samuel, a gentleman well and favourably known here in connection with the ship
of which some years past he has been chief officer. Captain Samuel assumed
command on the occasion of the untimely death of our late lamented friend
Captain Richard Kelly, which happened at sea on September 8. Prior to her
departure from the Lancashire port Captain Kelly had been in very poor health,
and finally after severe fits, he succumbed on September 8. Captain Kelly was
comparatively a young man, being only 43 years of age when called away. He had
been for some 25 years in the service of the S.S. and . Co., and during that
time had commanded the barques Lutterworth, Halcion, and other vessels. He had
also been in command of the Westland for several years. Captain Kelly leaves a
wife with a numerous family to deplore their loss, and no doubt friends in every
direction will avail themselves of the opportunity of marking their regret for
the loss of so good a man. Captain Samuel, who is in command, has associated
with him Mr Bluett as chief, and Mr McLeod as second officer, while the ship
brings between 800 and 900 tons of general cargo for this port. She left
Liverpool on August 16.
Captain Kelly was 25 years in the service of the Shaw Savill and Albion Co., seven years in the Westland. When the Westland was bound for Wellington, Captain Kelly died at sea, on September 8th 1900, and the ship was brought on by the chief officer Mr Samuel. Arrived in Wellington Nov. 29 1900.
Captain Kelly commanded the Lochnager 1873 -1878
Captain J. Kelly commanded the Dilpussund 1876
Captain Kelly commanded the Wave Queen 1879 -1887
Captain R. Kelly commanded the Halcione 1887 -1891
Captain Kelly commanded the Westland 1893 - 1900. On Sept. 8, 1900, bound for Wellington, Capt. Kelly died at sea, the ship brought on by the chief officer, Mr Samuel. Capt. Kelly had been seven years in the Westland and 35 years in the service of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company. Captain White, a partner in the firm Nearing and Co. Auckland, was for 12 years at sea in sailing vessels, was second officer and first mate on the Westland, and Captain Fox, of the same firm was apprenticed on the Westland, and later rose to be second and chief officer of the ship.
Captain Kelly commanded the Akaroa 1899-1901
Captain A. Kemp commanded the barque Hudson
1887-1893
Captain H.H. Kemp commanded the Emigrant
from Auckland to London in 1851.
Captain Kennedy commanded the Jessie Readman 1878
Captain R.A. Kerr commanded the Mermaid 1860
Captain Robert A. Kerr commanded the Chariot of
Fame, 1640 tons register, White Star Line, in 1862 and 1863
Captain Robert W. Kerr, Lieutenant, R.N.R.
command of the Lady Jocelyn when she was a troopship to Auckland Dec. 10
1863.
Captain Kerr command the Wild Deer. He
was the first mate on the Christian McCausland in 1873 to Auckland.
Captain Kerr commanded the Crusader 1871
Captain Kerr commanded the Waitangi 1875
Otago Witness Thursday 28 December 1893 page 15
Captain Kennedy came to the colony in 1854 as chief officer of the s.s.
Nelson,
and commanded in succession the Lady Grey, Wonga Wonga, Lord Ashley, Airedale, Easby, Taiaroa, Phoebe, Ladybird, Hawea, Hauroto, Rotomahana, and
Flora. He has
completed nearly 40 years of service in these waters.
Captain A. King commanded the clipper ship Ashburton for Shaw, Savill, & Co. in 1860-61
Captain King commanded the Lancashire Witch
1867 and 1865 to Auckland. Dr Wills, father of the famous Australian explorer,
came out as surgeon.
Captain W. King commanded the Kensington, for Shaw, Saville, in 1862
-1864
Captain G. King commanded the Black Swan, for Shaw, Saville, in 1862
-1864
Captain Kirby commanded the Anne Longton
1857
Captain Knight commanded the Bebington 1874
Captain Knight commanded the England's Glory in 1876. Wrecked at Bluff 1881. Captain J. Bollons, who for a number of years has been in command of the Government steamer Tutanekai, was a seaman on England's Glory when she made her last passage.
Captain Laing commanded the Agnes Muir 1869
Captain R. Langlands and Captain Buchan in command of the earlier Timaru 1865-1869 made five visits to Port Chalmers.
Captain Langlands commanded the Aboukir 1870
Captain Langlands commanded the Shun Lee 1871
Captain Large commanded the Glenhuntly 1871 and 1873
Captain Langly commanded the Simoon 1862 to Port Chalmers
Captain Laws commanded the Lurline 1887 - 1888
Captain J.D. Le Conteur commanded the Isles of the South 1874 to Lyttelton
Captain Le Couteur commanded the Scottish Lassie 1880
Captain Le Vesconte commanded the Glenlora 1875 - 1876
Captain Leeman commanded the Waitangi 1885 - 1890
Captain J. Lees in command of the Excelsior in 1869 - 1871. Captain Lee's brother was first mate.
Captain Leslie commanded the Queen Bee 1866-70. The Queen Bee was wrecked at Cape Farewell 1877
Captain John Leslie commanded the May Queen 1870 - 1872
Captain James Leslie commanded the Calypso 1874 -1878. Photo WW Vol. 1 pg 138.
Captain J. Leslie commanded the General Windham in 1863
Captain Leslie commanded the Otago 1874
Captain Leslie commanded the Canterbury 1875
Captain David Leslie commanded the Border Chief 1876 to Lyttelton
Captain T.H. Lethbridge commanded the Messina 1862
Captain Levack commanded the Schiehallion to Auckland in 1878. She ran ashore on the way home.
Captain A. Lewis in command of the barque the Antares 1878- 1884
Captain William Lilley commanded the H.H. Willis & Co. packet Barbara Gordon, 500 tons, in 1851
Captain Lindsay commanded the Lebu 1879
Captain Loftus commanded the Trevelyn 1874
Captain Loftus commanded the Queen Bee 1875
Captain Peter Logan commanded the Robert Henderson 1860-1865 and the William Davie 1866-1868 and the James Nicol Fleming 1869 - 1873
Captain Thomas Logan, commanded the 1900 gross register steamer Manapouri, in 1881
Captain Longman commanded the Silver Eagle 1864
Captain Loryman commanded the Lancastria 1869
Captain Edward Lovell commanded the iron clipper Sunbeam, 900 tons burthen, in 1867.
Captain J.R. Luckes command the War Spirit 1863 to Auckland
Captain McKenzie Luckie command the Michael Angelo 1865, 1873, 1875, found dead in his cabin from heart disease. The body was interred in the new cemetery at Nelson on 21st January 1875
Captain W. Lyall commanded the Inflexible, 1,800 tons, 1870
Captain John Lynch command the E.P. Bouverie
1868
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Captain Macauley commanded the Elizabeth Graham 1886
Captain Malcolm Mucaulay, commanded the Red Rover, 1042 tons in 1867
Captain Mackie commanded the Ben Nevis 1880 -1881
Captain Macy commanded the Monarch 1866
to Auckland
Captain C.J. Macey commanded the Oriental
to Wellington via Nelson in 1857.
Captain W. Main commanded the 1867 Clyde built iron
barque clipper Anne Main, in 1870
Captain Robert Mainland commanded the Loch
Doon 1881 - 1882, subsequently transferred to the Loch Trool, to
Dunedin and Wellington in 1902. He was for many years commodore skipper of D.
and R. Sprout's fleet. When a boy sailed in the Orkney coasting vessels.
When he got his certificate he became master of the Loch Doon holding
command until 1884. Mr S. Mainland, a son, sailed with his father in the Loch
Trool, but he left the ship in 1905 and settled in Stanley Bay, Devonport,
Auckland.
Captain Malcolm
Otago Witness 23 January 1875, Page 12
The Wild Deer comes here this trip in the command of Captain Malcolm, late of
the Helen Burns
Captain Cowan, formerly of the Wild Deer, having been promoted to the
Wellington, one of the Company s new ships.
Captain Mangus Sutherland Meredith
Captain Manson commanded the Killochan 1888
Captain Marshall commanded the Norman Castle 1872
Captain Thomas H. Martin commanded the Loch Fyne 1883
Captain Martin command the Mataura 1887-1890
Captain Martin commanded the Opawa 1893 - 1895
Captain Mather commanded the British Empire 1875 to Auckland
Captain Mathers commanded the Waimea 1878-1881 late of the Otaki.
Captain Mathers commanded the Opawa 1882 - 1885 Was ailing. Jumped overboard twice. Died. The chief officer brought her on.
Captain Edward Mathews in command of the Mystery 1859 to Lyttelton
Captain Joseph Maxwell served his apprenticeship in the City of Dunedin also known as commander of the Oamaru 1884-1888 and several of Shaw, Savill sailers and steamers. He retired from the sea in 1911, having served 39 years in the company's service, of which 16 years were spent in sailing ships. He became the marine superintendent for the Shaw, Savill Co. at Auckland. He died in 1922. WW Vol 1. photo page 125
Captain Melville commanded the Douglas
1886
Captain W.H. Merryman commanded the Minerva
to Lyttelton in 1861.
Captain Metcalf commanded the Rakaia 1878 - 1879
Captain Metters commanded the Westland 1891
Captain Henry T. Middleton
Otago Witness 27 November 1890, Page 23
Middleton� Duncan.� On the 13th November, at St. Augustine's Church, Napier, by
the Rev. J. Parkinson, Captain Henry T. Middleton (of the New Zealand Shipping
Company's ship Rangltiki) son of the late J. R. L. Middleton, of Hounston,
Middlesex, to Isabella C. C. Duncan, eldest daughter of the late Captain James
Duncan, Arbroath. Scotland.
Captain Millar commanded the Sydenham 1881
Captain Miller command the Orari 1888 - 1890
Captain Millington commanded the Spirit of
the Dawn when she was wrecked on the Antipodes Islands in 1893.
Drowned.
Captain J.W. Millman, commanded the Trans-Tasman
clipper barque Malay in 1876 -1877, and the barque G.M. Tucker in
1888
Captain Millman commanded the Waipa 1877
Captain Millman commanded the Rangitiki
1877-1884
Captain Milman took the Waitaki home and returned in the Rangitikei.
Captain Millman commanded the s.s. Brunner in
1899
Captain Milner commanded the Dragon 1884
Captain W. Mitchell commanded the Asterope 1861-1864
Captain Mitchell commanded the Caribou 1866, 1868 to Port Chalmers
Captain Mitchell commanded the Jessie Readman 1873 - 1874
Captain Mitchell commanded the Langstone 1873-1875
Captain Mitchell commanded the Glenlora 1877
Captain Middleton commanded the Rangitiki 1889 - 1890
Captain Moffat commanded the James Nicol Fleming 1877 - 1879
Captain Moffat commanded the Westland 1881
- 1883
Captain E. Montgomery the clipper ship Golconda for Shaw, Savill,
& Co. in 1860-61
Captain John Moodie commanded the Ben Nevis 1873
Captain Moon command the Carnatic, 871 tons built in 1867, 1874
Captain Moon commanded the England's Glory. Built for E.H. Moon.
Captain Moore commanded the 700 ton Dauntless 1864. He was ill when the vessel arrived in Auckland and never recovered. Died.
Captain Mordue - The Auckland 1885. He was a fine sailorman as ever commanded a ship.
Captain Mordeau commanded the Auckland 1886
Captain Mordue commanded the Elizabeth Graham 1874-1880
Captain Morgan commanded the Famenoth 1884-1886
Captain Morgan commanded the Egmont 1862
Captain Morison command the Grassmere 1895. Sank near Cape Terawhiti.
Captain Morrison commanded the Saint Vincent 1864
Captain Morrison commanded the Lastingham 1883 - 1884. Wrecked Jackson's Head, Cook Strait, spring 1884.
Captain A. Morton commanded the Pleiades 1891 - 1897. He had previously visited Nelson in the barque Charles Napier 32 years previously
Captain Mosey commanded the Duke of Edinburgh 1874, 1875
Captain Mosey command the Orari 1876 - 1881, transferred to the Waimate 1881 - 1884 on the retirement of Captain Peek.
Captain Mosey commanded the Eastminster 1880 to Nelson
Captain Mossop commanded the Coronilla 1871-1872
Captain Mourdant commanded the Chaudiere 1873
Captain John Mowlem commanded the Electra 1866-1868
Captain Muir commanded the Jessie Readman 1875
Captain John Muir in command of the Invercargill
1876-1891
Otago Witness 18 January 1879, Page 16
On the 31st December, at the, residence of the bride's father, Port Chalmers, by
the Rev. James Maxwell. Captain John Muir, ship Invercargill, to Annie Isbister,
eldest daughter of Captain John Robertson.
Captain W.L. Mullens commanded the the Willis, Gunn and Co. 579 ton Victory 1848 -1853
Captain Mundle command the Oliver Lang 1856. He afterwards settled in New Plymouth and was master of the Stormbird, the Rangatira and other coastal vessels.
Captain Mundle command the Anne Longton 1860 to Nelson
Captain S. Murdock commanded the Loch Urr 1870-1881 then he was relieved by his brother Captain J. Murdock 1881-1882
Captain Murray commanded the Akaroa 1893-1898
Captain Murray commanded the Mennock 1878
Captain McAlister commanded the William Davie 1880
Captain McCarry commanded the Laira 1882
Captain McCarthy commanded the Hereford 1878
Captain Dearmaid McDearmaid
Otago Witness 31 December 1881, Page 17
On a the 24th December, suddenly, from apoplexy, at Dunedin, N.Z., Captain
Dearmid M'Dearmaid, of the barquentine Fairlie ; aged 40 years.
Captain McDonald commanded the Robert Henderson 1870
Captain McDonald commanded the Helenslee 1870 sailed Oct 1869 - Jan. 1870
Captain McDonald commanded the Auckland 1875
Captain McDonald commanded the Ben Venue when she wrecked at Timaru in 1882.
Captain McDougall commanded the Auckland 1877 - 1884. He died in Christchurch in the early 1920s
Captain McFarlane arrived in Dunedin Nov. 24 1863 in charge of the steamer City of Dunedin. He retired from the sea in 1883 and was appointed harbourmaster at Dunedin. He held this position until 1893. Since 1901 to 1924 he was residing at Devonport, Auckland. May 1924 age 95th year. He had purchased the barque P.C.E.
Captain William McGowan commanded the Ben Venue 1876 - 1881. Captain Wilson, who was master of the Northern steamship Company's Waiotahi at Auckland sailed under him. Photo WW Vol. 1 pg 301
Captain McGuinness commanded the Duke of Edinburgh 1873
Captain McKechnie commanded the Fontenaye 1878
Captain McKelvie commanded the Hurunui 1877
Captain Henry McKenzie commanded the Lebu 1878 when he loss his life. Family in Kercaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland. Mr R.F. Wadeson brought her in to Auckland.
Captain McKenzie commanded the Brahmin 1889-1890
Captain McInnes command the Otaki 1875
Captain McInnes commanded the Rakaia 1875
Captain MacInnes commanded the Opawa 1877 - 1878
Captain J. McIntosh commanded the Claremont in 1863 to Auckland.
Captain D. McIntyre commanded the Chrysolite
1861
Captain John McLachlan commanded the Trans-Tasman
s.s. Omeo in 1861
Captain T. McMillan commanded the Asia 1874
Captain J. McMillan commanded the Canterbury
1881-1890
Captain R. McNabb commanded the s.s. St. Osyth,
3,600 tons in 1875
Captain R. McNeilly commanded the Dilharee 1874-1875
Captain D. McRitchie commanded the Assaye 1874. Wrecked on the Chatham Islands.
Captain McWilliam commanded the Prince of Wales 1863
Captain McWilliams commanded the Westland 1885 - 1886
Captain J. Nelson commanded the Parsee 1873 - 1874
The Star 9 July 1875 pg2
Deep regret was expressed at Lyttelton when the news of the death of
Captain
Newby, of Shaw Savill and Albion Company's barque Helen Denny, became known. The
deceased was chief officer of the ship Wellington, under Captain Cowan, for a
considerable time, and was in the vessel when she collided with ice on the
homeward journey from New Zealand. He had only been married on his previous trip
to England.
Captain Alex. Newlands commanded the wool clipper
Royal Bride, 983 tons Register, 1800 tons Burthen in 1859 from Otago.
Captain Nicol commanded the Glenlora 1890
Captain Nicholl commanded the Glenlora 1891
Captain Nixon commanded the Northern Monarch 1897 - 1903, became a total wreck off Egmont Nov. 7 1903
Captain Norie commanded the Countess of
Kintore 1876
Captain W.T. Nixon commanded the
Gananoque, for Shaw, Saville, in 1862 -1864
Captain Peter Nordstrum, a coastal skipper, died age 67, c. 17 March 1908 ?Auckland, joined the Union Company in 1878. In charge of the Haupiri, Mawhera and other vessels.
Captain Norman commanded the Otago 1888 -
1889.
Captain H.W. Norris commanded the Evening Star, for
Shaw, Saville, in 1860 - 1864
Captain Nott commanded the British Queen
1859 to Auckland
O
Captain Oughton commanded the Nimroud
1864
Captain E.M. Outridge
commander of the clipper ship Champion of the Seas, 200tons register in
1869
P
Captain Isaac Paddle commanded the Charlotte Gladstone 1872 to Dunedin
Captain John Paddle commanded the Strathallan 1864-1866. Captain John Paddle commanded the Monarch 1870.
Captain Parker commanded the Halcione 1878 -1885
Captain Parker commanded the Hermione 1888 -1891
Captain Parker commanded the Langstone 1876-1878
Captain Paton commanded the Camperdown 1876
Captain Payne commanded the Celaeno 1879
Captain R.H. Paynter commanded the Palala 1880
Captain Perriam commanded the Wave Queen 1879
Captain Parriam commanded the Lochnager 1883 -1885
Captain Parry commanded the Queen of Cambria1883
Captain Paterson commanded the Himalaya 1886 -1888.
Captain Peacock commanded the James Nicol Fleming 1874
Captain Peacock in command of the Invercargill 1875
Captain Peacocke commanded the William Davie 1872-1873
Captain George Pearson commanded the Cashmere 1851-1857
Captain W. Pearson commanded the wool AA2 iron ship Lutterworth, 853 tons in 1880.
Captain Pearson commanded the Sam Mendel 1883-1885
Captain Pebbles commanded the Margaret Galbraith 1875-1876
Captain Pebbles commanded the Otago 1877 - 1880. Photo WW Vol. 1 pg155
Captain Peek commanded the Mary Shepherd 1869-1870
Captain Peek command the Waitara 1874
Captain Robert Peek commanded the Beth Shan in 1871, Bebington 1872, Hindostan 1873, Waimate 1876-1881
Captain Perriam commanded the Crusader 1887
- 1888
Captain C.G. Perrins commanded the Mizapore
in 1882
Captain Perritt commanded the Miltiades 1874
Captain Perry commanded the Forfarshire
1894
Captain David Peters, commander of the wool ship,
500 tons burthen, Malay, 1864
Captain J. Petherbridge commanded the Cashmere in 1861 to Lyttelton for Messrs Shaw, Savill and Co.
Captain Charles G. Petherbridge commanded the Maori 1851 - 1859, Cashmere 1861 - 1862 for Shaw Saville, Napier 1863, Countess of Kintore 1866-1871
Captain Petherbridge commanded the Chile 1867
Captain Petherbridge commanded the St. Leonard's 1872, 1873
Timaru Herald, 14 January 1874, Page 2
The ship St. Leonard's, Captain R. Todd, got under way at Lyttelton on Saturday. The ship this voyage goes on in charge of Captain Todd, Captain Petherbridge remaining in port to look after the discharge and loading of Messrs Shaw, Saville and Co.'s ships, and all matters connected therewith.
Captain Petherbridge commanded the Dragon 1883
Captain Peters commanded the Portland 1864
Captain David Peters commanded the clipper ship Malay, 1865 and to Nelson 1867
Captain Peters commanded the Helen Denny 1880
Captain Phillips commanded the Euterpe 1876 - 1882
Captain Phillips commanded the Zealandia
1884 - 1890
Captain Edwin Phillips, formerly commander of the
Manuka, died in Sydney c. Nov. 13 1908
Captain Pierrpoint commanded the Deva 1884-1887
Captain Pinel commanded the Parsee 1891
Captain Pinel, late of the ship Tiptree, commanded the Sea King to Auckland in January 1864.
Captain Pitfield commanded the Chaudiere 1878
Captain J.K. Pittendreigh commanded the Loch Linnhe 1882 to Port Chalmers
Captain Plunket commanded the Hurunui 1893
Captain Pook commanded the Joseph Fletcher 1856-1859
Captain Pope commanded the Telegraph to Auckland in 1863
Captain G. Potter commanded the Clara 1848 to Auckland, and still in command in 1852
Captain Pottinger commanded the Rangitiki 1891-1896. Cat was jumped through the port hole overboard and Captain drowned a few days later. Buried ashore at Napier. He was 54 years of age, of which 35 years was spent at sea and he had been with the N.Z. Shipping Company first as mate of the Waitangi and for the last six years in the Rangitiki. Captain's son onboard. Captain Baker formerly mate of the Turakina took the Rangitiki home. Captain F.A. MacIndoe of Wellington, made several voyages with Captain Pottinger as second mate.
Captain Pottinger commanded the Waimea 1888 - 1889
Captain Potts commanded the Rangitiki 1864
Captain Power commanded the Pareora 1877-1883. Succeeded by Capt. Donaldson in 1883
Captain Power commanded the Turakina 1884 - 1890. Photo White Wings Vol. 1. pg 131
Captain Poynton commanded the Nimrod 1864
Captain Raddon died Sept. 6th
1902 in Timaru, aged 85 years. Well-known as a
seafaring man, and for many years was captain of the Whitehall, trading
between the colonies and England. In command of the Whitehall, 936 tons,
sailed 16th June, arrived 26th Sept. at Lyttelton with cabin passengers only.
The Cingalese, 698 tons, barque, from London, 115 days out. sailed
14th June 1884 and arrived at Lyttelton 7th Oct. She brings a cargo of cement, a
quantity of which is for the Tamaki breakwater.
North Otago Times, 5 September 1879, Page 2 Oamaru, cleared outwards.
Sept. 4� Thurso, barque, 490 tons, Raddon, for Adelaide.
West Coast Times, 24 July 1885, Page 2
Timaru, July 23. Arrived � King Alec, barque, Captain Raddon, 104 days from
London. About five weeks ago a very heavy sea broke over the vessel's poop,
throwing down the captain (who was at the wheel) and flooding the decks, and
nearly washing another man overboard. Captain Raddon's ankle
was seriously
injured, but was put in splints. On coming ashore it was found the small bones
had been broken but had been well set.
Captain George Tolman
Ralls, City of Auckland 1873 -1878. He retired to Sandford, on the
Thames, near Oxford, and named his beautiful home Auckland. Mrs Ralls accompanied
Captain Ralls on three voyages and three of their children were born on board.
Mrs A. Hills of Manurewa was a daughter. He was in command of the City of
Auckland when she was wrecked on Otaki Beach. Photo WW Vol. 1 pg 25. Captain
Ralls died January 25th 1927. He was born in 1838.
1891 Census: Edmonton, Middlesex - 27
Mabel A S Ralls 17 at sea
Archibald Ralls 15 at sea
Daisy E M Ralls 13 at sea
Captain Ramsey commanded the Maraval 1879 - 1880
Captain Rankin commanded the William Davie 1874 to Bluff
Captain Ranson commanded the Northern Monarch 1879
Captain Reid commanded the Bebington 1884
Captain Reid commanded the Earl of Zetland 1875
Captain Charles H. Renaut had been sailing New Zealand waters since 1848 when he was a youth on his father' s ship. In command of the Celaeno for her maiden voyage 1864- 1873, the Crusader 1874 - 1876, Pleione 1877 - 1885.
Captain Renaut commanded the Frenchman 1860 to Auckland
Captain Renaut commanded the Glenlora 1874
Captain Renaut commanded the Soukar 1878
Captain Renaut commanded the Margaret Galbraith 1899
Captain Reston commanded the Waimea 1892 -1895
Captain Reynolds commanded the Edward Thornhill 1862 to Nelson
Captain Abraham Lewis Reynolds. A hard sailing skipper of the old school, in spite of cracking on was popular with the passengers. The Ida Zeigler 1861-1867. Photo WW Vol. 1 pg 219. in 1864 William Mann was chief officer and Henry Neville second officer.
Captain Reynolds commanded the Countess of Kintore 1872. He was formerly the chief officer on the Countess of Kintore. Commanded the Ballarat 1871.
Captain Richards commanded the Thomas Stephens 1869. Probably sunk by a German submarine
Captain Richardson commanded the Endymion 1873-1879
Captain Rice commanded the Loch Cree 1901
Captain Ritchie commanded the Pladda 1860
Captain Robb commanded the Rajah in 1853.
Captain Roberts command the E.P. Bouverie 1874 to Lyttelton
Captain A.F. Roberts commanded the Trevelyn
1880 - 1886.
Captain D.T. Roberts - In command of the
Caduces in 1871- 1872. He had made previous visits to Auckland in the
Maori 1867-1869.
Timaru Herald Friday 1 November 1889
The many friends in Canterbury of Captain David T. Roberts, who was so
well-known and esteemed suring the many years he traded to the colony in the
Shaw Savill ship Hermione, will regret to hear that he expired about September
5th, at Weymouth in his sixty-first year. Captain Roberts suffered a sad loss
about twelve months ago, when his son, Captain W. Roberts was lost in the Trevelyan, the ship being
his first command.
Evening Post, 22 November 1888, Page 2
A singular complication, which has its origin in a similarity of names and some
curious coincidences, has arisen in connection with the identity of the Captain
of the missing ship Trevelyan. It appears that some years ago the
ship was commanded by a Captain A. F. Roberts,
whose son, Mr. J. M. Roberts, was also on board, in the capacity of second mate.
Captain Bowling, we believe, succeeded this Captain Roberts. When the vessel
left London this voyage it was announced that she was in charge of another
Captain Roberts. By many people it was assumed that the son of the former
captain had succeeded to the command. This is, however, not the case, the
present captain being a son of Captain D. T. Roberts,
for a long time well known as master of the Hermione. It was a curious
coincidence that the Captain Roberts now supposed to be lost served with his
father as mate on the Hermione, so that it will be seen there were two
Captain Roberts, each of whom had his son as an officer on board their
respective ships. We have ascertained that the son of Captain A. F. Roberts left
the Trevelyan two years ago, and joined another vessel, in which he went
to San Francisco, subsequently becoming second mate of the ship Sokoto, a
South American trader, which he was still in on the 28th June last, as confirmed
by a letter just received from him by friends in Wellington. An extraordinary
thing in connection with the mix-up of the names is that the so friends, one of
whom is a lady to whom Mr. J. M. Roberts was engaged, all concluded that he was
the present captain, and until the receipt of the letter referred to have
mourned him as drowned, the fianc�e, who has lately go on to Nelson on a visit,
having worn black on this account for the last two months. Up to yesterday she
had not been informed of her lover's safety. We hope that all will now end
happily.
Captain Roberts in command of the Caduces 1871-1872
Captain Roberts commanded the Pareora 1876
Captain D.T. Roberts commanded the Hermione 1877 -1887
Captain Roberts commanded the Bebington 1878-1879
Captain Roberts commanded the Dunedin
1887 -1889
Captain C. Robertson commanded the H.H. Willis &
Co. packet Simlah, 800 tons, in 1853
Captain William Robertson in 1867commanded the Countess of Kintore, 738 tons, built by William Duthie of Aberdeen
Captain Robertson commanded the Carona 1874
Captain Robertson commanded the Loch Fleet 1877-1879
Captain Thomas Robertson - "The artist is also a seaman"
Captain Robinson commanded the Coronilla 1882
Captain John Robertson, commanded the newly built clipper ship Melbourne in 1861
Captain John Thomas Rolls commanded Union Company's Niagara was chief officer of the the Loch Bredan in 1882 and the s.s. Lady Bird in 1861.
Captain Henry Rose commenced his career in the NZ trade by bringing out the Mermaid, of White Star line to Auckland in 1861. This was his second voyage as Commander. When he arrived Home the White Star Company was in difficulties and he was offered, and accepted command of the Merope (Shaw Savill Line), 1872. He made three voyages in this ship then joined the New Zealand Shipping Company in which he purchased an interest and brought out their first new ship Rakaia sailing from London in 1874 to Lyttelton. When he got back to London he took command of the Waimate, 1875. He then sailed on the Waikato in 1875. While in the colony he was offered and accepted the position of Marine Superintendent for the company and the following year the directors appointed him manger of the newly opened Wellington office. He took over on August 1 1874 and year the office until he retired in 1898. He made his first voyage in the Orestes. He spent 27 years at sea. Died in London in his 79th year. One of his daughters married Mr C.V. Houghton, manager of the Auckland branch of the N.Z. Shipping Co. Zealandia 1879, Mermaid 1861-1869. photo of Capt. Rose WW page 90. Vol. 1. Rose served as an apprenticeship on the St. Vincent, a Crimean War troop carrier.
Captain Ross commanded the Silver Eagle 1864
Captain Ross commanded the City of Dunedin 1872 -1875. Photo WW Vol.1 pg87
Captain Ross commanded the City of Cashmere
1882, total wreck January 14, Timaru.
Captain Daniel Ross commanded the Viola and
the William Davie in 1869, City of Cashmere in 1881.
Captain John Roth
Otago Witness 29 July 1887, Page 21
Rolph.--On the 23rd July, at Jetty street wharf, Dunedin, John Rolph, captain of
the ship Myrtle; aged 29 years.
Captain Rowe commanded the British Empire 1875
to Dunedin
Captain Henry Rowlands commanded the barque Duke
of Sutherland in 1882
Captain Russell commanded the Routenbeck 1892
Captain Ruthie commanded the Helen Denny
1874 - 1882. Photo WW Vol. 1 page 159
Captain Ruthven
Wanganui Chronicle, 20 January 1910, Page 2
About the time when the Ruahine left London on her first voyage to New Zealand,
Captain Ruthven, the commodore of the Orient fleet, took the Orvieto out on her
maiden voyage. He has been a servant of the Orient Steam Navigation Company
since its inception, and has commanded many of its liners. So far he has made
about eighty ocean voyages in steamers, and before that he made several in
sailing vessels. An authority who dabbles in statistics stated the other day
that Captain Ruthven must have travelled at least two and a quarter millions of
miles since he embarked as fifth officer of the famous clipper ship White Star.
Captain Samuel commanded the Westland 1900 - 1905
Captain Sandberg commanded the Rooparell 1874
Captain Sangster in command of the Rob Roy 1866. Quick passage.
Captain Alfred A. Sargeant who brought out the Pleione from 1890 to1897 had previously had command of several of the Shaw Savill Co.'s ships. He came out as second officer of the Halcione in 1881 and 1882 to Wellington, under Captain E.S. Parker. In 1884 - 1889 he was given command of the Glenlora, and he brought that ship to Auckland in 1885. He then made four trips to Nelson 1886-1889 and in 1893 took over the Pleione. After completing four voyages to Wellington he came to Auckland in 1897 when he left Shaw, Savill Co. and entered the coastal service.
Captain Scotland commanded the Glenlora 1877 - 1883
Captain Scotland commanded the Crusader 1884 - 1886
Captain Scotland commanded the Westland 1887
- 1889
Captain William Scotland commanded the 1225 clipper
ship Rangitikei in 1877
Captain Scott command the Hylton Castle 1873
Captain Scott commanded the Chaudiere 1879, 1880
Captain Scruby command the Piako 1884
Captain Seaborn commanded the Waipa 1876
Evening Post, 24 May 1911, Page 5
Captain F. D. Seaborne of the s.s. Cranley, which steamer arrived
under charter to the Tyser Company on 24th March last from New York, died in
Wellington in a private early .this morning at 3 o'clock 'after a somewhat
lengthy illness. Captain Seaborne's first visit to these parts was as master of
the steamer Tolosa which arrived here on 31st January, 1899. Since
then, a few years ago, he called in the Barkston for coal, the boat being on her
way to South America. Deceased was 52 years of age. He leaves a widow and two
children in Bristol, England. A special service has been arranged to be held at
St. Peter's to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. The cortege will leave for Karori
immediately after the service. As far back as 1879 deceased was second mate on
the Shaw-Savill and Albion Company's old sailing clipper Crusader,
when the vessel was trading between New Zealand and the Old Country. A number of
years ago he was with Captain Steele on the Swanley as chief
officer. All the flags on vessels in port today are at half-mast ac a mark of
respect to the deceased's memory.
Captain George Sellars commanded the Bombay 1862-1866. He command the Electra 1869-1873. Captain Sellars was in command of the Zealandia when she collided with the Ellen Lamb in in 1874 mid ocean and cut her in two. He was in command of the Bombay to Auckland when she arrived there with all her masts gone. Commanded the Zealandia 1874 - 1882. He was appointed ships' husband in London in 1882.
Captain Sellars commanded the City of Dunedin 1863
Captain Sellars commanded the Ida Zeigler 1868 when she wrecked at Napier 27 Feb.
Captain Setton commanded the Pleiades 1878 - 1888
Captain William Sewell - Harbour
Master, Oamaru
Captain Thomas Shaw commanded the 815 tons register
wool ship Gala, 1864 -1865.
Captain Sherris commanded the Weathersfield 1882-1888
Captain Silba commanded the Rakaia 1891
Captain Silba commanded the Waipa 1893-1894
Captain John Simpson commanded the new coast
wise schooner Pioneer
Captain J. Sinclair commanded the
Kennaird, for Shaw, Saville, in 1862 -1864
Captain Sinclair commanded the Wave Queen 1873-1874
Captain Sinclair commanded the Waimea 1886 - 1887
Captain Sinclair commanded the Hurunui 1889-1890
Captain Sinclair commanded the Waitangi 1891
Captain Skinner commanded the Warwick 1872-1875
Captain Slaughter commanded the Spray of the Ocean 1859
Captain Smale commanded the Monarch 1850 to Auckland
Captain Smart command the Carnatic 1853
to Dunedin.
Captain Edwin Smith commanded the Star of the
South, an iron clipper ship of 665 tons registered , in 1870
Captain J. Smith commanded the Donna Anita,
for Shaw, Saville, in 1862 -1864
Captain Thomas H. Smith commanded the clipper
barque May Queen, 800 burthen, 1864
Captain W. Smith commanded the Douglas, 1200
tons in 1864
Captain Smith command the Carnatic 1855 to Auckland
Captain Smith commanded the Portland 1869. Took ill in Auckland and Captain Coster took command.
Captain Smith commanded the Chile 1875
Captain Smith in command of the Wild Duck 1870
Captain Smith commanded the Iron Queen
1877
Evening Post, 27 July 1911, Page 7
Captain R. E. Smith, late master of the Mokoia, retired from the service
of the Union Steam Ship Company on Monday, says the Otago Daily Times, he having
reached the age limit prescribed by the the company's regulations. Captain
Smith, who has had an honourable career as a seaman, first went to sea as a lad
in March, 1862, on a ship trading to the West Indies and the Mediterranean. His
initial trip to the colonies was made in the Queen Bee in 1860. The
return Home was made in the Christian M'Causland, and on that occasion
the present Minister of Railways (the Hon. J. A. Millar) was senior apprentice.
He returned to New Zealand in the Shaw, Savill, and Albion steamer Zealandia,
and entered the coastal service as chief officer of the Lady of the Lake
and later of the Ino, both of which vessels traded to Catlins and the
Molyneux River. He left that service in August, 1877, and joined the Union
Company, being appointed chief officer of the Taiaroa, and later acting
master, and finally master of the Beautiful Star� his first command. He
then commanded successively the larger ships Omapere, Poherua, Ovalau,
Taviuni, and during the last eight years the s.s. Mokoia. At
different times Captain Smith has relieved as master on all the company's
intercolonial and foreign vessels. At a meeting of the directors and heads of
staffs of the U.S.S. Co. at Dunedin on Monday Mr. John Roberts, C.M.G., on
behalf of the directors, presented Captain Smith with a very handsome marble
clock, and at the same time expressed the very high opinion they entertained of
his qualifications as a sailor add of his qualities as a man. Captain Smith is
vary favourably known among the travelling public, and his retirement from
active service will be very ninth regretted among tile wide circle of friends he
has made throughout the colonies.
Captain Spence commanded the Queen Margaret 1855 to Nelson
Captain Thomas Spencer commanded the Cissy to Lyttelton 1866, to Nelson 1867 and to Sydney in 1871 and to Wellington in 1874. He was first officer on her to Lyttelton in 1850. He commanded the Steadfast, (1850-56) ,to Lyttelton in 1851.
Captain Spencer commanded the Ironsides 1879
Captain Spille commanded the Baron Aberdare 1875
Captain Frederick John Sotham commanded the Waitangi 1874. He was well known in the Government service. He commanded the troop-ship Middlesex and also the ship Durham. Born 21 April 1841 Oxfordshire, England - died Easter day 5 April, 1896 in a buggy accident on the way to Makikihi. He was the Vicar of Waimate. Late Commander Royal Navy troopships to India and Abyssinia. On leaving the Navy, he took holy orders and then came out to New Zealand, serving at Port Chalmers, Waikouiti,and other cures in the diocese of Dunedin. He was subsequently stationed in Lyttelton, where he laboured for a number of years, and exchanging cures was stationed at Waimate. The late Mr Sotham was widely known all over Canterbury and Otago, and he had during , his previous career been brought into direct contact with some of the leading minds of the day. The late Admiral Tryon was his personal friend, and had visited him (at Sydney) just prior to the Victoria disaster. The funeral takes place at 2 p.m. to-day. His Lord ship Bishop Julius will not be able to be present, but all the local clergy will assembled. The deceased leaves a widow and five children. Rev. F. J. Sotham. Incumbent of St. Augustine's Church, Waimate.
Captain Sowells commanded the Brahmin 1889-1890
Captain Stapp in command of the Mystery 1862-1864
Captain Starkie commanded the Elizabeth Ann Bright 1863
Captain Steel commanded the Sam Mendel 1876-1877
Captain D. Stephens commanded the clipper ship Kinnaird for Shaw, Savill, & Co. in 1860-61
Captain H. Stephens commanded the barque Victory, 579 tons from Lyttelton to Batavia in 1859.
Captain J. Stephens commanded the clipper ship Motoaka for Shaw, Savill, & Co. in 1860-61
Captain O. Stephen commanded the barque Rose, 600 tons burthen, 1864.
Captain Alfred Stevens commanded the Matoaka 1859 - 1869 except 1865. " missing" homeward bound from Lyttelton 1869 (?W. Stevens)
Captain Stevens commanded the the Willis, Gunn and Co. 579 ton Victory 1859
Captain Stevens commanded the City of Dublin 1878
Captain Stevens command the E.P. Bouverie 1871-1873
Captain Stevens commanded the Auckland 1874
Captain P.B. Stevens commanded the Tintern Abbey 1875 to Lyttelton
Captain Stevens for some years master of the Wanaka and other ships was an apprentice on board the Hurunui when the collision occurred in the channel in 1883 and Captain Hazelwood was in command.
Captain J. Stott commanded the Avalanche for Shaw, Saville, in 1860 -1864
Captain Strang commanded the Lyttelton 1886
Captain Strap commanded the Sussex in 1874 and a decade earlier the Mystery
Captain Strap in command of the Sussex 1874 to Port Chalmers
Captain Alexander Strachan commanded the Electra 1863 and the Jessie Readman 1870 - 1873
Captain Strachan commanded the Canterbury 1874
Captain Strachan commanded the Carona 1875
Captain Strachan command the Golden Sea 1863 to Wellington
Captain Street commanded the Routenbeck 1879-1881
Captain Streeter in command of the Euterpe 1892-1894.
Captain John Stringer commanded the Chile 1865 - 1866
Captain William Stuart remained in command of the Tweed for 14 years from 1863.
Captain Adam Stuart commanded the Asterope 1864-1868
Captain George R. Stuart commanded the City of Dunedin 1869, the Otago 1869 - 1873 and Oamaru 1875, 1876, 1878, 1879, 1880
Captain Sutherland commanded the Crusader 1873 - 1874
Captain I. Sutherland commanded the Merope
1875-1885
Captain Sutherland command the Piako
1885- 1891
Captain Swinton commanded the Lanarkshire 1875 to Lyttelton
Captain N. Tyack, commanded the teak built Thracian 1866
Captain Tannock command the City of Glasgow 1892
Captain Robert Tatchell in command of the May Queen, 1873-1878. Photo WW. page 84 Vol 1
Captain Duncan Taylor in command of the Sebastopol in 1863
Captain J.H. Taylor in command of the Timaru 1876-1880.
Captain Taylor commanded the Rangitiki 1887
Captain Thomas commanded the Portland 1863
Captain Edwin J. Thomas commanded the barque Hudson 1884 -5. Ashore hear Timaru in 1885, certificate suspended.
Captain Thomas commanded the Electra 1877 to Auckland
Captain Thomas commanded the Merope 1886 - 1890
Captain Thomas in command of the Oamaru 1893
Captain Thomas commanded the Wellington 1897 - 1903
Captain George Thompson commanded the Electra
1878-1883
Captain T. Thomson commanded the clipper ship
Derwentwater for Shaw, Savill, & Co. in 1860-61
Captain John Thompson late of the ship Derwentwater, of London, will command the ship Glenmark, launched from the yard of Wm Duthie, jun., at Aberdeen. Sept. 1864
Captain T.G. Thorpe commanded the White Rose 1875. Found dead in his berth from apoplexy. Mr W.C. Best, chief officer then took charge.
Captain Thow commanded the Laira 1883-1887
Captain Tilley commanded the City of Dunedin 1867
Captain Tilly command the E.P. Bouverie 1869 -1870
Captain Tilly commanded the Christian McCausland 1871-1873
Captain Tilly in command of the Invercargill 1874
Captain Tilly commanded the Wanlock 1876 to Auckland
Captain Tizard commanded the Warwick 1876
Captain Richard Todd, long resident of Napier. Born at Dundee, Scotland in 1845, he went to sea as a boy, and his first voyage was to China on a ship carrying troops. His first visit to NZ was as chief officer of the Asterope in the middle '70s. Next he was chief officer on a small barque called the Malay of which he took command when the master, Captain Peters was promoted to a larger vessel. He next commanded the Saint Leonards 1874-1882. His last ship was the Northumberland 1884-1887. After the loss of the Northumberland, 10 May 1887, Captain Todd came ashore and settled at Napier. Five months later he was appointed marine superintendent of the colonial Union Shipping Company. In 1889 the company changed names to Tyser Line. In 1893 he was appointed colonial superintendent of the line, which in 1913 changed its name to the Commonwealth and Dominion Line. He then became director of the company. He was 71 when he died. His wife predeceased him by two years. He had three sons. Ref. White Wings Vol. 1 pg 70. Photo.
Captain John Todd commanded the Strathallan 1858 to Dunedin. Crew refused to sail back with him. Captain Grieve took command.
Captain Todd commanded the Malay 1873 to Nelson
Captain Tokin commanded the Langstone 1883 - 1889
Captain Tonkin commanded the Glenlora 1892 - 1897
Captain Tomkin commanded the Adamant 1882.
Captain Torkilson commanded the Cariolanus 1889
Captain Torrance commanded the City of Cashmere 1875
Captain Trewyn commanded the Harvest Home 1871 to Lyttelton
Captain Trewyn commanded the barque Hudson 1875
Captain Tribe commanded the Waimate 1885
Captain Triston commanded the Rakaia 1875-1877
Captain Triston commanded the Opawa 1878 - 1880
Captain Triston commanded the Waitangi 1881-1883
Evening Post, 28 September 1910, Page 8
DEATH OF A SEA CAPTAIN.
A well -known mariner. London advices announce the death of Captain Trotter, of
the Tyser Line. He was for many years connected with the Australian and New
Zealand trade.
Captain S. Tulloch
commanded the wool ship Star of Tasmania, 1862
Captain J Turnbull commanded the Bosworth
in 1860-61.
Captain Turnbull commanded the Simlah 1853 to Auckland
Captain Thomas Turnbull commanded the wool ship Chile 1860-1862
Captain Turnbull commanded the Caroline 1876 to Nelson
Captain C. Turner command the Grassmere 1862
Otago Witness December 26 1900 page 54
The Tyser line steamer Star of England arrived at Port Chalmers on Thursday afternoon, and was berthed at the George street pier at the top of high water, her draught being 16ft 3in forward and 22ft 8in aft. The
Star of England is a screw steamer of 3696 tons, register, rigged as a brigantine. She was built at the yards of Messrs Workman, Clarke and Co., Belfast, in 1889. She is 371ft 8: ling, 44ft 2" breadth of beam and 27ft 2" in depth. Her engines are of the triple-expansion principle, the diameter of the cylinders being 26� in, 44in and 72in respectively, with a length of stroke of 48in. She is under the command of
Captain F.W. Ullyatt. She brings some 900 tons of general cargo.
Captain Vaughan commanded the Loch Linnie 1885 to Auckland
Captain Vaux commanded the Epson 1863
Captain Vaux commanded the Ironsides 1864 - 1872
Captain Vaux commanded the Oxford 1877
Captain Waddell commanded the Lebu 1890
Captain Wallace commanded the Resolute
1864-1866
Captain W. Wallace commanded the Geelong,
for Shaw, Saville, in 1862 -1864
Captain Ward commanded the Spirit of the Dawn
1877, 1878.
Captain John [James] Watson commanded the Ocean Mail,
official number 60971,
1873, 1874 1876. Wrecked at the Chathams on the
French Reef Mach 20
1876. His certificate was suspended for nine
months.
Captain Watson commanded the Western Monarch 1878-1880.
Captain Watson commanded the Rakaia 1890
Captain Watt commanded the Wanganui 1877
- 1882, late of the Colonial Queen and 1887
Captain William Watt commanded the Celestial Queen 1870-78 and commanded the Lady Jocelyn 1884- 1889. Died in Edinburgh. He was a brother-in-law of Captain Todd.
Captain Weir commanded the Loch Awe 1870s. Photo WW Vol. 1 pg 194
Captain West commanded the Lancashire Witch 1863
Otago Witness Thursday 28 December 1893 page 15
Captain Wheeler came to Auckland in 1858 as first officer of the
Lord Ashley. He
brought out from England the Panama Company's Kaikora, and after being in charge
of the Prince Alfred and Phoebe. He brought out the Hawea. For 12 years he
commanded the Wakatipu and then took charge of the Manapouri.
Captain E. Wheeler commanded the steamship Taranaki, 1870
Captain Whitcombe commanded the Asterion 1882
Captain James White commanded the Mermaid 1859 then the commanded the Blue Jacket 1865-1869 - met her doom in 1869. Mr Webber, third mate, later Captain Webber, Sydney Relief and Humane society, died in Sydney in 1921.Capt. James White late of the Blue Jacket, 1442 tons register, 2500 tons burthen, which burned at sea. and more recently the Charlotte Andrews, brought the Zealandia out to Lyttelton on her second voyage arriving 2 December 1870. "Bully" White they use to call him; a real hard sailorman who delighted to carry on, and never took a sail in until he absolutely compelled to do so. Charlotte Gladstone Jan. 1870 to Victoria.
Captain D. White commanded the Warwick 1867
Captain J.H. White commanded the ship Ramsey in 1864
Captain White, a partner in the firm of Nearing and Co., a business in Auckland, was for 12 years at sea and was second officer and first mate on the Westland. Captain Fox also a partner with Captain White in the same firm, was apprenticed on the Westland and later rose to second and chief officer of the ship.
Captain White commanded the Hindostan 1874
Captain Whitfield command the British Crown 1863 to Lyttelton
Captain Whitmore commanded the Ashmore 1854, 1856
Captain Whitson commanded the Dunedin 1875 -1886
Captain Wigsell commanded the Fernglen 1874 after Captain Frater was transferred to the Ferndale
Captain Peter Wilkie commanded the Aboukir 1862-1864
Captain Wilkie commanded the Lanarkshire 1877
Captain Wilkinson commanded the Geraldine Paget 1880
Captain Edmund Williams - in command the Avalanche and drowned when she sank off Portland in 1877. His former ship was the Merope. Before the Merope he was in command of the Queen Bee.
Captain Williams commanded the Queen Bee 1872
Captain H. Williams commanded the Merope
1873- 1874
Captain John Williams commanded the H.H. Willis & Co.
packet Cresswell, 800 tons, in 1851 - 1853
Captain John Wilson commanded the iron ship The Douglas, 1428 tons register in 1873
Captain Alexander Wilson commanded the Warrior Queen
1867-1874.
Otago Witness 15 January 1881, Page
17
On the 5th November, 1880, at Kirkcaldy, Scotland, Captain Alexander Wilson,
late of the ship Warrior Queen ; aged 56.
Captain Wilson in command of the Glentanner 1871
Captain Wilson commanded the James Nicol Fleming 1881
Captain Wilson commanded the Loch Ken 1882-1884
Captain Wilson commanded the Cossipore 1865-1866 400 days to reach Auckland, a record that has not been beaten
Captain Wood commanded the Portland 1880
Captain Wood commanded the Westland 1879 - 1880
Captain Nicholson Woods died of heart trouble age 60, in Wanganui, c. 12 Feb. 1912. Connected with Union Steam Ship Company and the last six years with the Canterbury S.S. Company. He skippered the Storm.
Captain Woodgate commanded the Electra to Nelson in 1863
Captain Worsp commanded the Phoebe, settled his family in Auckland.
Captain Worster commanded the Waimea 1875
Captain William Worster born London, 1842, Certificate 34176 (at London) mate Cymberlane, C(hina). Ref: Lloyds Captains Register: commanded NZ Shipping Co. vessels the Waikato 1876 - 15 July 1882, Orari 26 Aug. 1882, Piako Jan 1883, Otaki 30 June 1883- 23 Feb. 1891, Mataura 1 Feb. 1892, Waimate 13 April 1893 - 1895, Waitangi 1896-1898. 1868
Captain Wrankmore commanded the Glenmark 1865 -1871
Captain Wright commanded the Viscount Canning in 1864
Captain Wright commanded the Taranaki 1877-1879
Captain Wright commanded the British Trident 1864
Captain Wright in command of the Oamaru 1881-1883
Captain Wycherley commanded the Sir Edward Paget 1856
Captain J. Wynn commander of the St. Dunstan in 1864
Captain Young commanded the City of Agra 1874- 1879
Captain Young in command of the Cartsburn 1875 to Pt. Chalmers
Captain Young in command of the Norval 1876
It was common in the clipper days to have two or three vessels sailing the same ocean in the same decade with the same name. e.g. Victory, Hindostan
Otago Witness, 30 November 1899, Page 28 supplement
Papers Past
A FEW CAPTAINS who have VISITED OTAGO
From its Foundation to the Present Day. A Demaus photo. This is the key
1. Capt. Crawford, " Janet Court."
2. Capt. Tatchell, "May Queen."
3. Capt. Ryder, " Julianne."
4. Capt. White, " Hindoatan.
5. Capt. Hird, " Marlborough."
6. Capt. Jones, " Fanny Hare."
7. Capt. Turpin, s.s. " Rimutaka."
8. Capt. Anderson, s.s. " Waikare."
9. Capt. Warder. Gov. Fergusson's " Blanche."
10. Capt. Muir, " Invercargill."
11. Capt. Popharm. s.s. " Waihora."
12. Capt. Brown, "Lily."
13. Capt. Logan, " R, Henderson."
14. Capt. Moir, " Iris."
15. Capt. Hall, " City of Dublin."
16. Capt. Small, " Horatio Sprague."
17. Capt. Thomson, "Maulsden."
18. Capt. Hamon, s.s. " Waimate."
19. Capt. Logan, " Manapouri."
20. Capt. Boyd, " Piaka."
21. Capt. Kerr, " Martin Scott."
22. Capt. Sole, " Splendid."
23. Capt. Collingwood, "Canterbury."
24 Capt. Duder, 8.8. "Pukaki."
25 Capt. Peacock, " Wm. Davie."
26. Capt. Downie, " Panmuir."
27. Capt. Greenstreet, s.s. " Rimutaka."
28. Capt. Culbert, " Himalaya."
29. Capt. Hepburn. "Sir Lancelot."
30. Capt. Staple, " Elmiranda."
31. Capt. Peebles, " Margaret Galbraith.
32. Capt. Paton, "Clutha."
33. Capt. Cameron, s.s. " Wakatipu "
34. Capt. White, " Beautiful Star."
35. Capt. Holmes, s s. " Matatua."
36. Capt. Kennedy, s.s. "Airedale."
37. Capt. Cooper, " Christian M'Causland."
38. Capt. Ross, " City of Dunedin."
39. Capt. Underwood, s.s. "Gothenburg."
40. Capt. Smith, " City of Tanjore."
41. Capt. Perriam, "Nelson."
42. Capt. Bannatyne, "Nelson."
43. Capt. Anderson, " Marlborough."
44. Capt. Kelly, " Westland."
45. Capt. Stuart, s.s. "Arawa."
46. Capt. Chatfleld, s.s. " Monowai."
47. Capt. Louden, s.s. "Titania."
48. Capt. Stevens, Dept. Harbour Master.
49. Capt. Carey, s.s. " Rotomahana."
50. Capt. Rogers, "Star of the East."
51. Capt. Killam, " Star of the East."
52. Capt. Dawson, " Derwent.
53. Capt. Veal, "Don Juan."
54. Capt. Strachan, " Jessie Readman "
55. Capt. Rankine, '' Timaru."
50. Capt Kelly, " Lutterworth."
57. Capt. Evans, "Tainui."
58. Capt. Brewer, s.s. "Ohou."
59. Capt. Coull, s.s. " Bannfshire."
60. Capt. Best, s.s. " Kakanui."
61. Capt. Baillie. " Wild Duck."
62. Capt. Spinks, s.s. " Talune."
63. Capt. Cannese, " Waimate."
64. Capt. E O. Hallet, " Rimutako."
65. Capt. Pettersen, " Jessie Nichol."
66. Capt. Wilson, s.s. " Fifeshire."
67. Capt. Stap, "Sussex."
68. Capt. Neville, s.s. " Hauroto."
69. Capt. Hood, s.s. " Anglian."
70. Capt. Barlow, s.s. "Tainui."
71. Capt. Duncan, " Remark."
72. Capt. Carden, " Margaret Galbraith "
73. Capt. Grant, "Takapuna."
74. Capt. Moignard, " Lizzie Bell."
75. Capt. Nelson, " Lindorus Abbey'."
76. Capt. Hart, s.s. "Geelong."
77. Capt. Forsdick, " Waipa"
78. Capt. Thomson, s.s. "Taiaroa."
79. Capt. Miller, " Strarathro."
80. Capt Sinclair, s.s. " Plucky."
81. Capt. Lloyd, s.s. "Wellington."
82. Capt. McFarlane, p.s. "City of Dunedin."
83. Capt. Garrard, s.s. " Tararua."
84. Capt. Olsen. s.s. " Nairnshire."
85. Capt. E. W. Small, " Jewess.
85. Capt. Mitchell, "Carabou."
87. Capt. Brown, s.s. " Forfarshire."
88. Capt. McDonald, " Three Brothers."
89. Capt. Ewan, "Lochiel."
90. Capt. Devitt, " Otaki."
91. Capt. Cuthbert, " s.s. " Elderslie."
92. Capt. Stevens, " E. P. Bouverie."
93. Capt. Malcolm, "Wild Deer."
94. Copt. James, " Auckland."
95. Capt. Findlay, "Turakina."
96. Capt. Friston, " Rakaia."
97. Capt. Partridge, " E. L. Partridge."
98. Capt. Cromarty, "Arawata."
99. Capt. McGee, s.s. " Tasmania."
100. Capt Sellers, " Zealandia."
101. Capt. Wheeler, s.s.. " Wakatipu."
102. Capt. Wallace, s.s. "Nairnshire."
103. Capt. Sinclair, s.s. " Mokoia."
104. Capt. Cummings, " Record."
105. Capt. Gorden, " Timaru."
106. Capt. Mellon, " Splendid."
107. Capt. Duncan, s.s. "Morayshire."
108. Capt. Edie, s.s. " Waihora."
109. Capt. Hansby, s.s. "Penguin."
110. Capt. Fox, "Transport."
111. Capt. Sears, " C. L. Taylor."
112. Capt. Broadway, " Hudson."
113. Capt. Clark, " Taunton."
114. Capt. Stott, s.s. " Maori."
115. Capt. Burton, " Crusader."
116. Capt. Levack, " Maraari."
117. Capt. Smith, " Taviuni "
118. Capt. Romney, " Clyde."
119. Capt. Worster, " Oterama."
120. Capt. Whitson, " Dunedin."
121. Capt. Colville, " Blenheim."
122. Capt. Condy, " Woodville."
123. Capt. McKersie, "Stella."
124. Capt. Evans, "Taranaki."
125. Capt. Gordon McKinnon, "Indus."
126. Capt. Couch, " Phrcbe Uunbar."
127. Capt. Watson, "Collingwood."
128. Capt. Vinal, "Alexandra."
129. Capt. Grieve, " City of Cashmere."
130. Capt. Cowan, " Manraret Galbraith."
131. Capt. Mead, s.s. " Penguin."
132. Capt. Manning, s.s. Rotomahana
133. Capt. Fleming, s.s. "Flora."
134. Capt. Silba, " Waipa."
135. Capt. Beaumont, "s.s. " Upolu."
136. Capt. Thomson, " Thomasand Henry."
137. Capt. Nichol, s.s. " Rangatira."
138. Capt. McCallum, Harbour Master.
139. Capt. Lambert, s.s. " Pukaki."
140. Capt. Streeter, " Euterpe."
141. Capt. Bernech, "Te Anau."
142. Capt. Nordstrum, s.s " Haupiri."
143. Capt. Farmer, s.s. " Mapourlka."
144. Capt. Millman, s.s. " Brunner."
145. Capt. Blanchard, s.s. " Beautiful Star."
146. Capt. Macbeth, s.s. " Waihora."
147. Capt. Newton, s.s. " Hauroto."
148. Capt. Driver, First Pilot.
149. Capt. Mclntosh, s.s.. " Wairarapa "
150. Capt. Blaney
151. Capt. Phillips, s.s. "Mararoa."
152. Capt. Sutherland, s.s. " Rosamond "
153. Capt. Rolls, s.s. " Corinna."
154. Capt. Gibb, s.s. "Oonah "
155. Capt. Kerr, s.s. " Dingadee "
156. Capt. Sheppard, s.s. "Taieri "
157. Capt. Bonner. " Waihi."
158. Capt. Shaw, " Wainui "
159. Capt. Rutter, s.s. " Herald."
160. Capt. Brophy, s.s. " Omapere."
161. Capt. Lake, s.s. "Ovalau."
162. Capt. Anthony, s.s. " Kawatiri."
163. Capt. Adams, s.s. " Poherua."
164. Capt. Robertson, s.s. " Rotiti."
165. Capt. Bentley, s.s. "Pateena "
166. Capt. Livingston, s.s. " Kini."
New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, 1 September 1900, Page 947
CAPT. SCOTT, "Hylton Castle"
CAPT. MORITCHIE, "Assaye" Lost at Sea.
CAPT. McGOWAN, In charge of " Benvenue " when lost at Timaru.
CAPT. HODDER, "Waikato."
CAPT. MONTGOMERY, " Queen of the Age."
CAPT. WEIR, "Loch Awe."
CAPT. FREEBODY, "Carisbrooke Castle" Brought out some of the Katikati Bottlers.
Evening Post, 27 February 1911, Page 3
IS THE "OLD MAN'S" GLORY GONE? When the "A.M." took the water in '71, the
captain, or "old man," was an awe-inspiring figure, fully conscious of his
importance. He was a potentate before whom all quailed. On sea or shore, the
master was a master, with the deportment of a Drake. "How now, though?" added
the old sailor gloomily. "The master mariner may be the slave of an office boy.
He is no longer king on the high. seas. The electric cables started to tie him
up into a much smaller space at sea, and the wireless' telegraphy is finishing
him off. He is only a cab-driver now. His orders fly ahead of him ; everything
is cut and dried. Tap the magic key ashore and the figure works. No more
bottomry rates," he laughed.
Evening Post, 18 March 1908, Page 10
Homeward Bound -Departure from Wellington - Captain Henrichs.
The crew were heaving up the anchor with an old-time chanty, their voices
blending as harmoniously as those of a n_____ choir, to the accompaniment of the
clink-clink-clink of the pawls of the windlass as the complaining cable slowly
passed through the hawse-pipes to the chain locker.
"AWAY, RIO!"
No crew on a Blackball liner ever sang lustier than did, the men on the,
Dechmont � all the ancient songs of the sea � "Sally Brown," "Away, Rio," and
"Homeward Bound." They were each stung in turn, for 100 fathoms of chain comes
in extraordinarily slow, especially when one has a pair of hands on a capstan
bar. Thirty fathoms of chain on the starboard anchor, and 70 fathoms on the port
anchor take getting in. The crew sang of a
Thres sky-sail clipper as lies out in the bay
Good-bye; fare-thee-well. Good-bye ; fare-thee well,
And she waits for the Duchess to tow her to sea,
Good-bye, my boys, we're ho-omeward bound.
And round and round they trudged on that journey that leads to nowhere except to
the place of starting. "Rally her, boys, shako her up, my lads," shouted the
mate encouragingly, and then they put the pressure of one and twenty pairs of
arms on to the bar and one of them � an old man, slightly built � started the
song-
Blow ye winds, ye ho
For Californ-io ;
There's plenty of gold.
So, I've been told.
On the banks of the Sacramento.
So the merry chanty wont on as the chain came in. Much of the song would need a
little revision before committing to hard print. The anchor was "cat-headed and
fished, and the ship was free.
"Get away aft; some of you, to the second mate," shouted the mate on the foc'sle
head as the crew cheerfully dropped the capstan bars on the deck. The yards are
squared, and aloft half a dozen men loose the fore and main upper topsails. The
"Old Man," wearing his crimson smoking cap his hands in pockets and pipe between
his teeth, paced the quarter deck, keeping an eye on things. He was evidently
well pleased with the wind and the game it was having, with the loosened sails.
He descended to his cabin and consulted the glass. It was falling. Still, the
breeze was fresh. Off Evans Bay it twanged mighty chords in the rigging, it
shrieked, piped, groaned, and thundered in great crescendos, and the loosened
sails bellied out as if impatient to be free. "..
The Days of Sail
Progress is plainly shown by the gradual change from small sailing-vessels to great steamships and
motorships in the New Zealand trade. Travellers of the present day can have but a slight idea of what was involved in
the voyages of the small sailing-vessels. Confined space, limited food, rigid regulations for
the safety of the ship and her living freight, lack of communication for long periods, and violent bufferings in
the oceans were among the experiences faced. It is no wonder that the character of
the men who commanded the ships was utmost importance to passengers, for a considerate master could do much to ameliorate
the discomforts and help make the voyage enjoyable.
Sons often followed in their father's footsteps unless they were sent out to the New Zealand with a guardian!