WINDJAMMERS AND N.Z.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 262, 5 November 1931, Page 9

WINDJAMMERS AND N.Z.

.LAST PASSENGER SHIP.

DISCUSSION IN "TIMES."

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, September 30,

A discussion as to the last trips, of sailing ships to New Z' aland has arisen EKfto a statement in the "Times" in its obituary of Captain Everard, who died a few days after his one hundredth birthday. _ . . The obituary states that in loou Captain Everard, with his six sons and two daughters, made a passage to New Zealand in the Lady Joceline, the last passenger sailing ship which left England for that country. To-day, the Rev. H. P. Hale, of Boonah, Ashurst Wood, Surrey, writes: "In your memoir of Captain Everard, R.N in your issue of September 28, it is stated that 'in 18S0 ... he made a passage to New Zealand in tlie Lady Joceline, the last passenger sailing ship which left England f°r that country That is obviously a mistake. In losO J. myself sailed to New Zealand as a passenger, along with many others, in the barque Mallowdale (Shaw, Savill Line), and I am sure I am right in saying that at that date, and for seme years afterwards, a sailing ship was the normal wav of travelling to New Zealand. In 1883, by the' British Queen, I returned to, England and . she was the second steamer chartered by the New Zealand Shipping Company when they established the first direct line of steamers to - this country. The fiist steamer was her sister ship the Biitish Kinsr which preceded her by a month or so. Incidentally, on my way out in 1880 we passed the Lady Joceline homeward bound."