Elizabeth and Mary
As early as 1825, the sealing ship Elizabeth and Mary was reported to be working off the Auckland Islands. In 1826 Captain Worth brought Elizabeth and Mary into Port Pegasus on Stewart Island to collect a sealing gang and found five other ships already in the harbour. So many vessels would have made for a hive of industry on the island and Captain Worth’s men were busy on shore cutting planks for their ship with saw-pits and forges.
Several years later on 07 April 1829, Elizabeth and Mary arrived at Sydney with a cargo of oil and seal skins. She had come from Macquarie Island and was still commanded by Captain Billy Worth who spent six weeks at the colony before steering his ship out of the harbour and back to Macquarie Island. A few months later Elizabeth and Mary arrived at Port Underwood at the top of New Zealand’s South Island. Already there, was long time resident Jacky Guard, with his ship Waterloo. However, all eyes were on another vessel Cyprus which had been overtaken by mutinous convicts on their way to Norfolk Island. Fearing for their own safety and feeling they had too few men to recapture the pirated ship, Captains Guard and Worth chose not to risk the lives of them men and let the vessel sail away unhindered.
On 22 September, Elizabeth and Mary arrived at Sydney with 18 tons of elephant seal in her hold. At this time the position of master transferred to Captain Morris and he led a crew on one trading voyage to New Zealand from December to May 1830. During this time they managed to procure 24 tons of flax and two tons of potatoes.
Elizabeth and Mary’s next captain was Captain Owen and he departed Sydney for New Zealand on 25 May 1830 and over the winter months made three trips across the Tasman in search of flax. The following year luck ran out for Captain Owen and his crew when Elizabeth and Mary was wrecked in New Zealand waters in early February 1831.
Several years later on 07 April 1829, Elizabeth and Mary arrived at Sydney with a cargo of oil and seal skins. She had come from Macquarie Island and was still commanded by Captain Billy Worth who spent six weeks at the colony before steering his ship out of the harbour and back to Macquarie Island. A few months later Elizabeth and Mary arrived at Port Underwood at the top of New Zealand’s South Island. Already there, was long time resident Jacky Guard, with his ship Waterloo. However, all eyes were on another vessel Cyprus which had been overtaken by mutinous convicts on their way to Norfolk Island. Fearing for their own safety and feeling they had too few men to recapture the pirated ship, Captains Guard and Worth chose not to risk the lives of them men and let the vessel sail away unhindered.
On 22 September, Elizabeth and Mary arrived at Sydney with 18 tons of elephant seal in her hold. At this time the position of master transferred to Captain Morris and he led a crew on one trading voyage to New Zealand from December to May 1830. During this time they managed to procure 24 tons of flax and two tons of potatoes.
Elizabeth and Mary’s next captain was Captain Owen and he departed Sydney for New Zealand on 25 May 1830 and over the winter months made three trips across the Tasman in search of flax. The following year luck ran out for Captain Owen and his crew when Elizabeth and Mary was wrecked in New Zealand waters in early February 1831.