AN EARLY VOYAGE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 April 1932, Page 8

AN EARLY VOYAGE

ARRIVAL OF THE RAVENSCRAIG Speaking to a “Mail” representative Mr J. Dayman, formerly of Port Nelson and now of Richmond, recalled that he came out to New Zealand with his parents just 70 years ago on the 23rd of last month on the ship Ravenscraig. ■ Mr Dayman lias preserved a paper giving the list of passengers on the vessel and he thought many of the names might prove of interest to not a few people in the district. The vessel arrived in Nelson on 23rd March, 1862, after a long passage of some 146 days. She spoke the barque Mary Lumley on 2nd January, 28 days out; also, on 19th January, the Nimrod, from London, 63 days out, bound for Calcutta. The Ravenscraig experienced very rough weather in the Channel and had to discharge some of her cargo at Plymouth and take in more ballast. She passed Cape de Verde on the 25th December, crossed the Line on sth January and made the island of Trinidad and Martin Vas on the 12th, Tristan d’Acunha on the 22nd, was oft the Cape of Good Hope on the 31st, reached St. Paul’s on the 19th February, and was in the longitude of Cape Lewin on the Ist March, reached Van Diemen s Land on 7th and Cape Foulwind on the 15th March, and from that time experienced calms and light winds to Nelson. There was one birth and no deaths during the passage. A letter of thanks signed by the passengers and crew was presented to E. Husband, ship’s surgeon. Captain Inglis was in charge of the vessel and the passenger list was as follows: Lieut. Inglis (2), Mr and Mrs Romford, Miss Jay, Mr and Miss Kingdom Messrs King. Hurst, Dickenson, Dr. Husband, Mr Charles Price and wife, Ann Ilarsey, Mr James Connesley, Mr James Ingram, Mr William and Cecilia Hunt, Mr Charles, Amelia, William and James Hart. Mary Ann, Messrs William James, John'Henry, and George Richard Dayman, Jessie, Esther and Jessie Humph* ries, Margaret, Thomas and Thomas Rees, Jane and William Murphy, Frances Mary, James, Joseph and John Kogan, Messrs John and William Arnold Pasleys, Mr and Miss Rroughton, Miss Briggs, Mr and Ann Jones, Catherine and John Savage, Elizabeth and John McConachie (2), Arthur and Agnes Miller, Joseph, Emma and Agnes Sherratt, Messrs Charles Tunnicliffe Thomas Doel, Timothy and Marv Kogan, Thomas Hunter. Humphrey Leary, John Overend, Samuel Huggast, Eliza Jane Hamilton, James Robinson. Nancy Leahy and Owen Kogan, an infant born on the voyage. < (It is not clear from the list which names apply to parents or children).