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White Wings Vol I. Fifty Years Of Sail In The New Zealand Trade, 1850 TO 1900

The Spirit Of The Dawn

The Spirit Of The Dawn.

In the three voyages she made to New-Zealand the 692-ton barque Spirit of the Dawn maintained a remarkably even average, two occupying 104 days and the third 105 days. Captain Ward was in command on all three visits. To Auckland she made two passages, arriving first on June 16, 1877, after a voyage of 105 days, and again on June 6, 1878, after a voyage of 104 days. She arrived at Port Chalmers on June 22, 1879, the time occupied on the voyage having been 104 days. the Spirit of the Dawn was wrecked on the Antipodes Islands on September 4, 1893, when on a voyage from Rangoon to Chili. Captain Millington and four men were drowned. The remainder of the crew got ashore, and for 87 days they lived on raw penguin and mutton bird flesh, having no means of making a fire. There was a food depot for castaways on the islands, but the shipwrecked craw never found it. Eventually they were rescued by the Penguin.