One of the first four ships to settle Christchurch, New Zealand, she left Gravesend? on the 4th September 1850, and Plymouth? on the night of Saturday 7th September, chartered by the [Canterbury Association]? with Captain William Dale the ships captain. She arrived at Lyttleton 99 days later on December 16th 1850 with 34 cabin passengers, 15 intermediate and 161 steerage passengers.
She was constructed in 1849 in Sunderland according to [Lloyds Registry]?, 664 tons.
She was lost on 25 June, on a reef off Amber Island (Mapon). She had on board a cargo of sugar for London, a large amount of money, and 254 Indian emigrants, for Port Louis. Nothing belonging to the vessel could be saved. Mr. Scott, an officer of the Madras Army, swam on shore, but died a moment after reaching it from exhaustion. Two European sailors, nine men (immigrants), ten women and three children were drowned.
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