THE VOYAGE OF THE PLEIADES.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1850, 27 January 1880, Page 2

THE VOYAGE OF THE PLEIADES.

Messrs Shaw, Savill and Company’s i hip of this name entered the port yesterday at 5 a tn.. completing one of the fastest voyages from London recorded this season. She left the docks on November Ist, the Downs next day, and the Start on November 3rd, with a large general cargo and one hundred and fourteen passengers of all classes. The passage, in addition to being a speedy one, - was throughout exempt from serious sickness, and free from accident to the ship up to January 21st, when the vessel ■was within one hundred miles of this coast. The logged position of the ship was lat. 45 S long. Iti3 E, when a heavy gale from W. to W.S.W was encountered, which increased to a hurricane, the ship being put under two close reefed topsails, the upper maintopsail having bean blown away. A heavy cross sea was running, and repeatedly broke aboard fore and aft, filling the decks with water. One very heavy sea struck the ship in the waist, which burst the iron bulwarks and started four stancheons It knocked the sheep peas to pieces, and took everything moveable off the deck. Another sea lifted the lifeboat out of the davits, stove it in, and threw it acr.-ss the deck, tearing the davits from their sockets, and ■washing everything out of the boat. Fortunately there was no loss of life, nor injury sustained by the passengers or crew. A second mishap occurred to the ship when she was abont one hundred miles south from Lyttelton, and wbich was supposed to be an after result of the roagh usage by tho gale described above. The ship was in stays at the time and the steering gear broke, the wheel being shattered to pieces A temporary tiller was at onco rigged, and tho ship brought into .port safely with it. With these exceptions, tho voyage was a moderate one, and uneventful. The passengers were a happy and sociable lot of people, and expressed their good opinion of the ship, their appreciation of her commander, and their admiration of Mrs Setten in. a testimonial which they presented to Captain Setten. Concerts and other entertainments wero given by tho Pleiades Entertainment Company two or three times weekly, and a concert by the crew in aid of the Dreadnought fund, realising .£3. Four vessels were spoken, their names and positions being as follows ; —November 14th. in lat. 29 N., long. 21 W., tho three masted schooner Koh-i-noor, from Liverpool to Demeraim ; December 2nd, lat. S N., long. 23 W., the ship County of Carnavoc, from- Cardiff to Bombay ; Janaary Ist, in lat. 45.12 5.,i10ng.,43 E. the American ship Llewellyn, J. Morse, from New York to Yokohama. Shs wished to be reported all well. On 3rd January, in lat. 46 S., long. 62 E., the Pegasus, of Liverpool, in company, steering eastward, in ballast, apparently bound to the colonies.

~ The account of the voyage supplied by Captain Setten, is—After leaving the Start, and having made a run of but thirty-nine hours down the Channel, fine easterly winds were experienced to Madeira, passed November 10th. Thence to the Equator, on December 4th, in 26 W., light baffling winds prevailed, with occasional rain and heavy thunder and lightning, instead of the expected N.E. trades. Eire S.E. trades were picked np at the line, and held to 21 S. The meridian of the Cape was crossed on Christmas Eve, the weather having been very fine previously from losing the trades. Off the Cape a heavy westerly gale was encountered, and strong winds, varying from N.W. to S.W., were carried right along from there to the Snares. On making this Coast the .first laud seen was the Nuggets, passed at 1.30 p.m. last Wednesday with a soutrerly wind, and Otago Heads were passed same day. The wind died away that night, and came light northerly. Akaroa H eads were passed on Saturday at noon, and Godley Head made out at 8 p.m. on Sunday night. The pilot boarded at 2.30 yesterday morning. The health officer and the officer representing the Board of Trade, visited the ship on arrival, and made their official examination of the vessel and her passengers. Amongst the latter a second cabin passenger, a young man, by name H. E. Pil.ett, a compositor, was found to be far spent from consumption. It was ascertained that he was one of the many ill-advised invalids who have been started on a long sea voyage as a means of recovery from an inenrab’e disease, and the passengers stated that, had it not been for the constant care of the captain and Mrs Setten, ho would almost of a certainty never have reached his de tination alive. As it is he will probably be taken to the Hospital, and it is intended to enforce the regulations of the Passenger Act against the ship, which will be required to snter into a bond as provided. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Willinstok, January 27. Arrived —Wakatipu, from Sydney. Passengers for Lyttelton—Messrs Douglas, Bose, Foster, and Llacpherson. On the morning of the 26th an infant on board, named Charles Walter Hugli Brown, died through the effect of teething. Wellington, January 26. Sailed—Albion for Melbourne via the South. Passengers—Messrs Enrst (2), Bailey, Jacobson, Martin, Dunlop, Bowles, Mesdames Carrow, Cortis, ’ Martin, Jacobson, Bennett, Chapman, McKeirow, Mowbray, Wheeler and family, Dunn Brandon, Bev. F. Cesser, Messrs McKerrow. Dalrymple, Jacobsen, Pergnsson. Downey, Greaves, Brandon, Capstick, and Boyd.