COSSIPORE

COSSIPORE WAS THE FIRST VESSEL ACTUALLY PURCHASED BY SHAW SAVILLE & CO WHICH WAS IN 1865 - UP UNTIL THIS DATE ALL SHIPS HAD BEEN CHARTERED FROM OTHER COMPANIES. COSSIPORE WAS A VESSEL OF 834 TONS AND HAD BEEN BUILT IN DUNDEE IN 1851 FOR W S LINDSAY OF LONDON FOR THEIR INDIA TRADE

 WILLIS GANN & CO ( SHAW & SAVILLE'S PREVIOUS EMPLOYERS ) HAD ALREADY CHARTERED HER THREE TIMES FOR TRIPS DOWN TO NEW ZEALAND.

SHE LEFT LONDON IN 1865 FOR AUCKLAND, BUT HAD TO PUT INTO PLYMOUTH FOR REPAIRS, WHICH SEEM TO HAVE BEEN EXTENSIVE, AS HER PASSENGERS WERE TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER VESSEL, COSSIPORE NOT MAKING IT TO AUCKLAND FOR OVER A YEAR , ARRIVING  NOVEMBER 1866, MOST OF THIS TIME WOULD APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN SPEND IN PLYMOUTH UNDER GOING THESE REPAIRS.

 ON HER RETURN TO THE U.K SHE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY SOLD.

SHE WAS WRECKED A SHORT WHILE AFTERWARDS.