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                SAIL VOLUME III


                                                                                          IV.  NEW ZEALAND TRADERS


                TARANAKI  (1877 - 1915), 1,199 gross ton and 1,126 net tons, length 228ft 2in, beam 35ft 2in,
                depth20ft 9in.  Constructed of iron, built by Robert Duncan of Port Glasgow for the Shirre Leslie Co.
                Sold to Captain John Leslie about three years later. Carried passengers to New Zealand. Beginning
                in 1877, made 24 passages to New Zealand from 1877 to 1901 under the Shaw Saville flag..  
                Her best voyage was in 1878 when she reached Port Chalmers in 75 days from Glasgow with 326
                passengers. The average for her voyages to Dunedin up to 1899 was 88 days.  She was sold to
                Italian owners in 1905 and sent to the ship breakers in 1915..
               




                WESTLAND (1878 - 1909),  1,116 tons, length 222ft 8in, beam 35ft 1in, depth 21ft.  Constrcted
                of iron, and built by Robert Duncan, Port Glasgow, for George Henderson's Albion Line.  Designed 
                to carry passengers to New Zealand, she was transferred into the Shaw Saville & Albion Line when
                the two companies merged in 1882.  She made twenty-five voyages to New Zealand beginning in
                1879 -fouteen to Port Chalmers, five to Wellington, three to Nelson, two to Lytteton, and one to Bluff  
                Harbour.  Her best outward voyage was to Dunedin from London was in 1888 which took 73 days.  
                She was sold to Norwegian owners in late 1905.  In 1909, she put in to Kingston from Barbados,
                disabled, was condemned and broken up.    
               





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