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DAUNTLESS

 DAUNTLESS WAS A BARQUE OF 700 TONS. SHE MADE ONE VOYAGE ONLY TO NEW ZEALAND UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN MOORE

SHE  LEFT  KINGSTOWN, CORK  ON THE 29TH / 31ST  DECEMBER 1864 BOUND FOR AUCKLAND  ARRIVING AT HER DESTINATION ON 15TH / 16TH MAY 1865.SHE CARRIED 400 IMMIGRANTS ONBOARD

 IT WAS NOT A HAPPY VOYAGE.

 THE CREW THREATENED TO MUTINY ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS DURING THE VOYAGE, POOR FOOD BEING THE MAIN REASON AND WHAT THEY CONSIDERED TO BE UN-SUITABLE ACCOMODATION PROVIDED FOR THEM WITH THE ADDED BELIEF THAT THE VESSEL WAS NOT SOUND

THE CREW ASKING TO BE PUT ASHORE AT THE NEAREST PORT WITH  SEVERAL  OF THE PASSENGERS SUPPORTED THEM IN THEIR COMPLAINTS.

THE SHIPS MASTER WAS CAPTAIN MOORE WHO HAD HIS LIFE THREATENED WHEN OFF THE CAPE OFF GOOD HOPE, BROKE INTO A CASE OF RIFLES ( DESTINED FOR THE COLONIAL SECRETARY ) AND ISSUED HIS OFFICERS WITH  THE SAID RIFLES. 

THREE OF THE CREW WERE EVENTUALLY PUT IN IRONS AND ON ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND THEY WERE HANDED OVER TO THE POLICE. THERE WERE 20 DEATHS ONBOARD BEFORE SHE REACHED HER DESTINATION AND 17 BIRTHS.

CAPTAIN MOORE WHO HAD NOT BEEN WELL DURING THE VOYAGE DIED SHORTLY AFTER THE VESSEL ARRIVED IN AUCKLAND

 DAUNTLESS

DAUNTLESS WAS A VESSEL OF 1,050 TONS WHICH WITH CAPTAIN COWAN IN COMMAND ARRIVED IN DUNEDIN / PORT CHALMERS ON 24TH NOVEMBER 1863 ( TOTALLY DIFFERENT VESSEL )

DAUNTLESS

DAUNTLESS A CLIPPER SHIP OF 800 TONS OUT OF BOSTON BUILT IN MEDFORD ( 1851 ? ) BY BENJ F DELANO COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN MILLER