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The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume I (1845–64)

The British Screw Corvettes “Miranda” and “Fawn”

The British Screw Corvettes “Miranda” and “Fawn”

The British Screw Corvettes “Miranda” and “Fawn”

Before coming to New Zealand the “Miranda,” a fifteen-gun corvette, had been engaged in the blockade of Archangel during the war with Russia, 1853–54. She was employed in the Hauraki Gulf in the Maori War of 1863, and in 1864 was sent to Tauranga, where the Captain (Jenkins) and a detachment shared in the disastrous attempt to storm the Gate Pa. The “Fawn,” which was at Auckland in 1862, was a seventeen-gun corvette.