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White Wings Vol I. Fifty Years Of Sail In The New Zealand Trade, 1850 TO 1900

The Palala

The Palala.

Of the three passages she made to New Zealand the best time recorded by the 1000-ton iron barque Palala, Captain R. H. Paynter, was the 85 days port to port, London to Port Chalmers; or 78 days 12 hours land to land. The barque left London on October 27th, 1880, and arrived in Port Chalmers on January 20th, 1881. She crossed the Equator on November 23rd, and rounded the Cape on December 18th. During the run through the Southern Ocean the Palala averaged 240 miles a day. When the barque made her first appearance in New Zealand waters she was a splendid new vessel. That was at Lyttelton on September 1st, 1878, after a 99-day passage from the Old Country, which she left on May 21st. On April 14th, 1880, the barque was back again in Lyttelton. On that occasion she took 101 days, having left the Old Country on January 3rd. On both these trips to Lyttelton she experienced fine weather; in fact, too fine to allow of good time being recorded.