Passengers Man Pumps.

When the deckhouse was swept overboard the solid iron bolts with which it was fastened down were torn from the deck, and a good deal of water got below before the holes were noticed. The hurricane which struck the barque blew such sails as were set to ribbons. Passengers were called to the pumps, as the ship was making water, and a strenuous time ensued. At one time there was 6ft of water in the hold. Eventually the storm abated, and Captain Danvers and the remnant of the crew were able to set about repairs. The passengers helped manfully. Under the circumstances Captain Danvers decided to put into Hobart, which was the nearest port, and after an anxious month, during most of which the weather fortunately kept fine, the barque reached port. After repairs she resumed her voyage to Lyttelton, where she arrived on August 27, over eight months from the time she left the Thames. She lay for a long while in Lyttelton, and the next record of her is that she sailed on July 20, 1865, for Hobart Town. Mrs. Armstrong says that her parents and some of the other passengers, finding that the repairs to the barque would take a long while, came over to Lyttelton in another vessel. The first of the Countess of Seafield's passengers to reach Lytteltonpage 231 were some people who arrived by the barque Christina, which left Hobart on June 12 and made Lyttelton on July 1, 1864. Mrs. Armstrong says she understood that the Countess of Seafield was sold in Hobart, and the fact that when the barque did eventually leave Lyttelton she returned to Hobart suggests that she had passed to Australian owners.