WARRIOR QUEEN

A WOODEN VESSEL, WITH TWIN DECKS, MADE OF OAK, SHEATHED IN YELLOW METAL, AND FASTENED WITH COPPER AND IRON BOLTS. SHE WAS A  VESSEL OF 988 TONS.

SHE WAS BUILT IN 1856 BY JAMES BRIGGS OF SUNDERLAND.SHE HAD ACCOMADATION FOR ABOUT SEVENTY SALOON PASSENGERS AND SECOND CLASS PASSENGERS. SHE WAS OWNED BY BRADLEY & CO OF LONDON AND REGISTERED IN THE PORT OF SUNDERLAND.

 SHE SPENT MOST OF HER TIME TRADING FOR BRADLEY, FROM BRITAIN TO INDIA. 

 IN 1861 SHE WAS SOLD TO BONUS & CO OF LONDON, HER NAME REMAINED UNCHANGED, BUT SHE WAS RE-REGISTERED IN LONDON.

  IN 1858 HER MASTER WAS CAPT. JENKINS, 1860 TO 1863 IT WAS CAPT. W HENRY AND IN 1869 IT WAS A HENRY.

SHE WAS CHARTERED BY SHAW SAVILLE & CO AT SOME STAGE AND SHE DID NINE VOYAGES TO DUNEDIN / PORT CHALMERS, NEW ZEALAND BETWEEN 1865 AND 1874 , BUT I AM UNCERTAIN AT THE MOMENT WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE ALL UNDER A SHAW SAVILLE & CO CHARTER .THE DETAILS OF THE NINE VOYAGES ARE SHOWN BELOW. SHE WAS ALSO IN WELLINGTON IN 1862 AND 1866 FOR SURE.   IN AUGUST 1875 WHILE ON A VOYAGE FROM AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND TO SAN FRANCISCO, CARRYING WOOL SHE STRANDED ON POINT REYES, MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, SHE HAD BEEN NAVIGATING USING DEAD RECKONING BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY  FOG THAT THEY HAD ENCOUNTERED OVER THE LAST TEN DAYS AND THE VESSEL FOUND  HERSELF WAY OF COURSE . WHEN THE LOCAL PEOPLE BOARDED HER ,THEY FOUND HER ABANDONED, WITH ALL LOG BOOKS AND INSTRUMENTS GONE, SUGGESTING THE CREW HAD TAKEN TO THEIR SHIPS BOAT.THE VESSEL BECAME A TOTAL LOSS. HER CARGO OF WOOL, WORTH $4000  WAS SALVAGED. HER OWNERS AT THE TIME OF THE STRANDING WAS STILL BONUS & CO OF LONDON.