Dep Ak                         6/4/48

Arr  Nagles                   7/4/48      pax P.Abercrombie and Mr Hayes

Dep Nagles                 14/4/48

Off Bay of Islands Sunday, 16/4/1848     

 

 

8/4/1848 Hyderabad departs Sydney with Bliss aboard

Departures

Hyderabad, ship, 815 tons, Captain Castles, for Auckland. Passengers - Mr and Mrs Burn, Mr Thomas Miles, [is he same person mentioned as crew on Stirlingshire?-dja] Dr Forbes, Captain Irvine, Mr Isaac Polack, Mr and Mrs Morris, Miss Morris, Mr and Mrs Hargraves, Captain Bliss, Messrs Connell, Lyon, Murray, West, Davis, Coleman, Prior, Richardson, Bourne, Lovett, Dawson and Austin.

Source- Sydney Gazette- No 212, Sat 8^th April, 1848. Vol V.

 

16/4/1848 Sunday, Deborah almost collides with Hyderabad, in sight of HMS Calliope off Cape Brett

Shipping Intelligence.

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The Hyderabad has made a fair average passage of thirteen days. She took her departure from Port Jackson at noon of Tuesday, the 4^th inst., with a baffling wind, which caused her to hang in sight of Sydney Light until 4am of the following morning. But from the noon of that day until the same hour of the fourth succeeding she made a run of 821 miles sighting Cape Maria Van Diemen early in the morning of Tuesday, the 11^th. Here she experienced a succession of calms, being unable to double the North Cape before Saturday last, when a light easterly breeze sprang up. On Sunday, at 1pm, whilst reaching off the land to the north of Cape Brett, three sail were descried rounding that promontory  going free, with top and top gallant stunsails, on the starboard tack. The two first were the schooners Cheerful and Deborah, with whom the Hyderabad exchanged numbers. The third was H.M.S.Calliope, entering the Bay of Islands. As the Hyderabad was, at this moment, likewise, on the starboard tack and forereaching greatly upon the Deborah, it was evident that the ship and schooner would speedily close each other, and to facilitate their junction, Capt. Nagle kept his vessel a point or two away. When ships at sea are desirous of speaking each other it is a rule that the vessel going free shall give way to the one upon the wind: but then again it is usual for the vessel thus approached to haul up the clue garnets of her mainsail, and lay her main-top sail to the mast. This the Hyderabad neglected to do, consequently the Deborah, instead of passing under the ship’s stern, and communicating to leeward, was under the necessity of speaking from to windward, and afterwards of crossing the Hyderabad’s bows. A terrible catastrophe had nearly resulted. Inferior in speed, the schooner was barely able to pass clear of the comparatively leviathan ship, even although the one was running before, and the other was jammed upon a wind - indeed, her escape could not be accomplished until the Hyderabad’s mainyard was braced flat aback. But a few feet closer and the result must have been frightful to contemplate! The Hyderabad took on board 353 cattle and 300 sheep. Of the former her loss had been about 57 - the latter have only diminished a few head. The Hyderabad sailed again for Sydney on Friday morning, but owing to the strong north-east wind anchored nine miles down. 

The New Zealander Shipping Intelligence  Saturday, 22^nd April, 1848

 

 

Arr Syd………5/5/48