The Royal Irish.

the Norwood made two more passages to Auckland. Her second appearance was on August 5, 1863, after a passage of 112 days from Spithead. On that trip she brought out the remainder (124 men) of the 18th (Royal Irish, Regiment, 13 men of the Royal Engineers, 25 boys of the Royal Navy, and five men, including an instructor, for the Armstrong guns. The officers on board included Colonel Carey, Captain Kemp, Captain Brooke, Lieut. Marsland, Assistant-Surgeon Spencer, and Mr. Matravers, of the purveyor's department. Mesdames Carey, Kemp, Matravers, and Marsland were also on board.

The Royal Irish Regiment was always closely associated with Auckland, as many of the men remained in the colony after the war, and up to within the last couple of years the survivors used to gather round the statue of Queen Victoria every anniversary and recall the old times.

The only unusual incident on this second passage of the Norwood was the falling overboard and drowning of one of the boys of the Royal Navy who were coming out to join the warships then stationed in New Zealand waters.

the Norwood's third trip, still in command of Captain Bristow, was made in 1866. She left Gravesend on April 28, and reached Auckland on August 11. She brought out cargo and 65 passengers. In the Southern Ocean she struck a hurricane, which carried away the quarter galley and top-gallant bulwark besides doing other damage.