St Michael
It was on 18 June 1822 that Captain Beveridge sailed St Michael into Sydney Harbour with the Wesleyan missionaries Walter, Lawry, and their families. St Michael had arrived at Sydney via Tongatabu, New Zealand, and the Friendly Islands.
A month later, John Beveridge turned his ship around and sailed back to Tonga, stopping at New Zealand’s Bay of Islands on the way, and once more on the way back in November. It was on St Michael that James Spencer first visited Bluff Harbour in 1823.
That same year Captain Beveridge’s ship delivered the Wesleyan missionaries to their ill fated Whangaroa mission station. Towards the end of 1824, St Michael was back at the Bay of Islands, en route for Sydney from a trading voyage to Tonga.
A month later, John Beveridge turned his ship around and sailed back to Tonga, stopping at New Zealand’s Bay of Islands on the way, and once more on the way back in November. It was on St Michael that James Spencer first visited Bluff Harbour in 1823.
That same year Captain Beveridge’s ship delivered the Wesleyan missionaries to their ill fated Whangaroa mission station. Towards the end of 1824, St Michael was back at the Bay of Islands, en route for Sydney from a trading voyage to Tonga.