VESSEL DETAILS
Vessel: Mary Ann(e) Type: Sailing ship/Barque
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At:   Tonnage: 600 Length:  
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Usual area: The following records may not refer to a single ship, but until additional details are available will remain a record of voyages be a single ship of that name. This name appears constantly in the migrant trade.
KNOWN HISTORY
9 July 1791
 Arrived in Sydney with convicts.
Passenger list
March 1841
 Arrived Hobart ex Dublin.
 
24 Sep 1841
 Left The Downs, England on voyage to Port Nicholson (Wellington) NZ for NZ Company. Most passengers were destined for Nelson.
 
29 Jan 1842
 Arrived Port Nicholson (Wellington), NZ ex England.
 
3 Feb 1842
 Left Wellington for Nelson, NZ (just across Cook Strait, to the SW).
 
9 Feb 1842
 Arrived Nelson, NZ.
Passenger list
3 Apr 1849
 Arrived Adelaide, South Australia.
 
Sources: Various, including ''The Franklin Correspondence - Part 1''
Vessel: Matoaka Type: Fully rigged sailing ship
Built: 1853 By:  
At: In the USA Tonnage: 1092 Length:  
Beam:   Draft:  
Built for: Migrant trade
Usual area: 'Matoaka' is apparently the family name for the Indian 'princess' we all know as Pochohontas. The ship was effectively the Boeing 747 of her day, designed to carry large numbers of passengers in relative comfort. She made regular runs to Australia and New Zealand, and it was from Lyttleton in New Zealand's South Island where she left on her return voyage to London in May of 1869, never to be seen again. It appears that she was under the command of Capt. Alfred Stevens for most of her career, which infers the good Captain sailed with his family aboard.
KNOWN HISTORY
22 Jan 1857
 Arrived Sydney,NSW. Probably carried immigrants.
15 Jun 1859
 Left Gravesend, London, with passengers including what was subsequently termed the Ball Party, a group of English migrants who were organised by one Thomas Ball, and who went on to settle in the Mangonui district, near Kaitaia.
Passenger list
10 Aug 1859
 Arrived at The Snares, islands to the south of New Zealand. Continued on to arrive at Wellington on 13 September, where 100 or so passengers left the ship.
 
17 Sep 1859
 Left Wellington for a stormy passage north to Auckland.
 
26 Sep 1859
 Arrived Auckland, where remaining passengers disembarked.
 
2 Sep 1860
 Left Bristol on voyage to Lyttleton, NZ.
 
1 Dec 1860
 Arrived Lyttleton.
 
13 Jan 1865
 Arrived Auckland on voyage which may have included other NZ ports.
 
13 May 1869
 Left Lyttleton, NZ on her last voyage. Never seen or heard of again.
 
Sources: Various, including 'Mangonui, Gateway to the Far North', by Neva Clarke McKenna, in regard to the Ball venture.
Auckland Passenger Arrivals
 
Vessel: Montmorency Type: Sailing ship
Built:  By:  
At:  Tonnage:  Length:  
Beam:  Draft:  
Built for:  
Usual area: The following records may not refer to a single ship, but until additional details are available will remain a record of voyages be a single ship of that name. The one voyage of record is to Moreton Bay, now known of course as the Port of Brisbane.
KNOWN HISTORY
7 July 1860
Left Plymouth, England.
16 October 1860
Arrived Moreton Bay, QLD.
Passenger list
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