MATAURA sailing ship 1868
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2022 10:10 pm
$3.60 The MATAURA on passage from England to New Zealand, 1879
The stamp is designed after a painting made by Sean Garwood. By the painting is given:
Eighty-seven days after departing Gravesend, London, the MATAURA with a cargo of hopeful immigrants arrives in Port Chalmers, New Zealand. The painting highlights the atrocious conditions immigrants faced on their journey by sea.
The year is 1879 and the MATAURA under command of Capt. Brown is rounding the Snares, 87 days after departing Gravesend, London, with another cargo of hopeful immigrants. She’s a full-rigged ship of 853 tons and the first NZ Shipping Co ship to be fitted with Harkin’s dry-air refrigerator.
MATAURA will arrive in Port Chalmers on the 22nd of September 1879. She is running before a strong South Westerly and shaping a course up the East coast of the South Island to Port Chalmers.
Snares Islands/Tini Heke, also known as The Snares, is a small group of uninhabited islands lying about 200 km south of New Zealand’s South Island and to the south-southwest of Stewart Island/Rakiura.
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The DUNFILLAN was a vessel of 853 tons that paid two visits to Port Chalmers. She arrived there on June 13, 1870, from Glasgow, which port she left on March 9—a passage of 96 days. Captain Gamble, who was in command, reported that on three consecutive days the ship logged 325 miles a day. She crossed the Equator 27 days out from port, but she then met with light winds and calms, and it was not until the fifty-ninth day out that she passed the Caps of Good Hope. There were 150 passengers. On January 15, 1874, she again arrived at Port Chalmers, this time in charge of Captain Kerr. Gravesend was left on October 26, 1873, the voyage thus taking 81 days. On this occasion, she had 161 passengers and came consigned (chartered) to the N.Z. Shipping Co. the DUNFILLAN was afterward purchased by the N.Z. Shipping Co., and named the MATAURA.
Built as an iron-hulled ship-rigged vessel under yard No 34 by Aitken & Mansel, Glasgow for William Ross, Glasgow.
03 December 1868 launched as the DUNFILLAN named after a winery near Glen Ellen, Scotland.
Tonnage 898 grt, 853 nrt, dim. 60.78 x 10.24 x 6.19m.
26 December 1868 registered in Glasgow. Official number 60398 Flag GBR
She is fitted out with all the latest modern improvements, including iron masts, steelyards, steam winch, and a condenser capable of condensing 300 gallons per diem (day).
Her first voyage to New Zealand was under Capt. Gamble, arrived 13 June 1870 at Port Chalmers, after her return to the U.K. she was chartered by the New Zealand Shipping Company for her next voyage. Arrived 06 November 1874 in Dunedin under command of Capt. Kerr.
After this voyage, she was bought by the New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd., Christchurch in May 1875. Renamed in MATAURA, named after the town Mataura on the South Island in New Zealand. Registered in London.
08 August 1875 she sailed from the U.K. under command of Capt. Gorn, arrived in Dunedin on 18 November 1875
1878 Re-rigged as a barque.
1879 Registered in Lyttelton, New Zealand.
November 1881 fitted with Haslam's Patent Air-dry Refrigerator (other sources give Harkin’s patent dry-air refrigerator), and she took the second cargo of frozen meat from Dunedin, New Zealand on 12 June 1882 bound for the U.K. She was the first ship of the New Zealand Shipping Comp. fitted out with freezing machinery. She could carry 6,000 carcasses. In June 1889 increased to 10,000 carcasses.
May 1883 she arrived in Auckland and loaded the first shipment of frozen meat owned by Fisher and Company, butchers on Queen Street in Auckland.
1888 Registered in London.
1895 Tonnage given as 914 grt, 847 nrt.
She stayed in New Zealand to U.K. service till she was sold January 1895 to the Norway Rederi. A/S Alida, managed by Bruusgaard, Kiøsterud & Co,Drammen. She was sold for £2800.
Her fasted passage was in 81 days from the U.K. to New Zealand, her slowest 128 days.
Under the Norway flag, she was under command of Capt. J. Bødker after she was bought till she was lost in 1900.
Dismasted in a hurricane of Isla Diego Ramirez, Chile on 24 August 1900 on a voyage from Levuka, Fiji to Nantes with a cargo of copra, the crew abandoned the vessel and were rescued by a British sailing ship.
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22704294 ... h%5D=items https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?y ... =DUNFILLAN
White Wings by Henry Brett.
New Zealand 2022 $3.60 sg?, Scott?
The stamp is designed after a painting made by Sean Garwood. By the painting is given:
Eighty-seven days after departing Gravesend, London, the MATAURA with a cargo of hopeful immigrants arrives in Port Chalmers, New Zealand. The painting highlights the atrocious conditions immigrants faced on their journey by sea.
The year is 1879 and the MATAURA under command of Capt. Brown is rounding the Snares, 87 days after departing Gravesend, London, with another cargo of hopeful immigrants. She’s a full-rigged ship of 853 tons and the first NZ Shipping Co ship to be fitted with Harkin’s dry-air refrigerator.
MATAURA will arrive in Port Chalmers on the 22nd of September 1879. She is running before a strong South Westerly and shaping a course up the East coast of the South Island to Port Chalmers.
Snares Islands/Tini Heke, also known as The Snares, is a small group of uninhabited islands lying about 200 km south of New Zealand’s South Island and to the south-southwest of Stewart Island/Rakiura.
https://jgg.co.nz/product/imigrants-sean-garwood/
The DUNFILLAN was a vessel of 853 tons that paid two visits to Port Chalmers. She arrived there on June 13, 1870, from Glasgow, which port she left on March 9—a passage of 96 days. Captain Gamble, who was in command, reported that on three consecutive days the ship logged 325 miles a day. She crossed the Equator 27 days out from port, but she then met with light winds and calms, and it was not until the fifty-ninth day out that she passed the Caps of Good Hope. There were 150 passengers. On January 15, 1874, she again arrived at Port Chalmers, this time in charge of Captain Kerr. Gravesend was left on October 26, 1873, the voyage thus taking 81 days. On this occasion, she had 161 passengers and came consigned (chartered) to the N.Z. Shipping Co. the DUNFILLAN was afterward purchased by the N.Z. Shipping Co., and named the MATAURA.
Built as an iron-hulled ship-rigged vessel under yard No 34 by Aitken & Mansel, Glasgow for William Ross, Glasgow.
03 December 1868 launched as the DUNFILLAN named after a winery near Glen Ellen, Scotland.
Tonnage 898 grt, 853 nrt, dim. 60.78 x 10.24 x 6.19m.
26 December 1868 registered in Glasgow. Official number 60398 Flag GBR
She is fitted out with all the latest modern improvements, including iron masts, steelyards, steam winch, and a condenser capable of condensing 300 gallons per diem (day).
Her first voyage to New Zealand was under Capt. Gamble, arrived 13 June 1870 at Port Chalmers, after her return to the U.K. she was chartered by the New Zealand Shipping Company for her next voyage. Arrived 06 November 1874 in Dunedin under command of Capt. Kerr.
After this voyage, she was bought by the New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd., Christchurch in May 1875. Renamed in MATAURA, named after the town Mataura on the South Island in New Zealand. Registered in London.
08 August 1875 she sailed from the U.K. under command of Capt. Gorn, arrived in Dunedin on 18 November 1875
1878 Re-rigged as a barque.
1879 Registered in Lyttelton, New Zealand.
November 1881 fitted with Haslam's Patent Air-dry Refrigerator (other sources give Harkin’s patent dry-air refrigerator), and she took the second cargo of frozen meat from Dunedin, New Zealand on 12 June 1882 bound for the U.K. She was the first ship of the New Zealand Shipping Comp. fitted out with freezing machinery. She could carry 6,000 carcasses. In June 1889 increased to 10,000 carcasses.
May 1883 she arrived in Auckland and loaded the first shipment of frozen meat owned by Fisher and Company, butchers on Queen Street in Auckland.
1888 Registered in London.
1895 Tonnage given as 914 grt, 847 nrt.
She stayed in New Zealand to U.K. service till she was sold January 1895 to the Norway Rederi. A/S Alida, managed by Bruusgaard, Kiøsterud & Co,Drammen. She was sold for £2800.
Her fasted passage was in 81 days from the U.K. to New Zealand, her slowest 128 days.
Under the Norway flag, she was under command of Capt. J. Bødker after she was bought till she was lost in 1900.
Dismasted in a hurricane of Isla Diego Ramirez, Chile on 24 August 1900 on a voyage from Levuka, Fiji to Nantes with a cargo of copra, the crew abandoned the vessel and were rescued by a British sailing ship.
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22704294 ... h%5D=items https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?y ... =DUNFILLAN
White Wings by Henry Brett.
New Zealand 2022 $3.60 sg?, Scott?