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

The Rhea Sylvia

The Rhea Sylvia.

The only voyage she made to New Zealand was a very rough one for the Rhea Sylvia, Captain Evans. With 152 passengers on board she left Bristol on January 15, 1861, and took 111 days to reach Lyttelton, where she arrived on May 6, 1861. Hardly had the ship left the English coast than she met a succession of gales from the S.S.W., which lasted a fortnight. Even the most experienced hands were apprehensive, so boisterous was the weather. One of the worst gales experienced was on the night of January 27, when a tremendous sea broke fore and aft over the ship. Water got below, the binnacle was washed overboard, the gig stove in, and all the live stock was lost.