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Governor Grey, having been in the Bay of Islands, where he had met up with Hone Heki, departed that place on HMS Calliope, Captain Edward Stanley, for Auckland on 27th April, 1848. ‘On the following day, she was compelled, through stress of weather, to seek shelter at Great Barrier Island, from which port she weighed on Saturday morning[29th]’. Source either the NZer or Daily Sthn Cross -will find-dja] Also mentioned in Gillies Log 28/29-April, 1848
HMS Calliope was a gunboat of 26 guns and had a crew of 236 men.
Painting of the HMS Calliope is by Samuel Prout Hill.
National Library of Australia.
This was the vessel from which Te Rauparaha was captured at Plimmerton on 23rd July, 1846, and taken to Auckland.
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