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Rig

Full-rigged ship of New Zealand Shipping Co

Tonnage

1022

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9 May 1881 ➜ 10 August 1881

Rakaia
London
Auckland, NZ

Description

Fully Rigged Ship

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Reference

Précis of passages in Sir Henry Brett - White Wings, Volume 1 (Auckland 1924)
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Abstract log of maiden voyage, London 31/12/1873 to Lyttelton and return 29/06/1874 by Chief Officer WF Caborne, under Captain Henry Rose

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National Library of Australia, Canberra MS 4907
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Reference

Account of his voyage as an apprentice in "Rakaia", c1890 in Frank Arthur Worsley - First Voyage in a Square-rigged Ship (1938)

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References and documents and SS Rakaia of 1895 in New Zealand Shipping Company records.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand MS Pps1148
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Reference

Log of Logs, Vol 3

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Author

Ian Nicholson

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