Glory
When Captain Brown of Glory called at Codfish Island in Foveaux Strait in 1825, it has already become a permanent settlement for sealers with several Europeans residing there. Captain Brown married a local girl and as there were no men of the church in the south at this time, it would have been a Maori ceremony.
Two years later in May 1827, residents and visitors at the Bay of Islands were astounded when a sealer’s long boat arrived having journeyed eight hundred miles in five months from the Chathams. The men said they had been crew of Glory and were forced to make their escape on a long boat after the ship had run aground on Pitt Island. Samuel, which was leaving the Bay when the sealers arrived, took all hands on board and delivered them to Port Jackson.
Two years later in May 1827, residents and visitors at the Bay of Islands were astounded when a sealer’s long boat arrived having journeyed eight hundred miles in five months from the Chathams. The men said they had been crew of Glory and were forced to make their escape on a long boat after the ship had run aground on Pitt Island. Samuel, which was leaving the Bay when the sealers arrived, took all hands on board and delivered them to Port Jackson.