Cuba
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:06 pm
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Built in 1824 as a wooden, ship rigged ship in Liverpool for Kinnaer & Co., Glasgow.
Tonnage 273 ton.
1833 Is given in the Lloyds Register that she was underway from the Clyde to St Lucia under command of Captain J. Willie.
1840 Is given that J. Somes, Londen is the owner and that she was chartered by the New Zealand Company for a voyage from London to Port Nicholson.
She was this voyage under command of Captain J. Newcombe and did have on board 30 passengers of which two died from yellow fever after a stop in Praya in the Cabo Verde Islands.
31 July 1839 she sailed from Gravesend and arrived at Port Nicholson on 04 January 1840.
05 September 1840 sailed from Port Nicholson with on board 3 passengers and in ballast to Sydney were she arrived on 20 September 1840.
07 November 1840 she sailed from Sydney still under command of Captain Newcombe with on board a general cargo and four cows to Port Nicholson.
1843 She sailed under command of Captain Jeyes, who owned the vessel also, homeport London.
She was then on a voyage from London to Sydney and barque rigged.
1851 Owned by Tindall & Co., London, under command of Capt. Woolley and on a voyage from London to Algoa Bay, South Africa.
All the next years in Lloyds Register given that she was underway from London to Algoa Bay
1855 Not more mentioned in Lloyds Register. Fate unknown.
New Zealand 1940 3d sg618, scott234
Source: Lloyds Register. White Wings emigrant ships to New Zealand by Henry Brett.