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

Another Rapid Passage

Another Rapid Passage.

The following year (1889) the Westland, still in command of Captain Scotland, made another remarkable run to Port Chalmers of 77 days anchor to anchor, or 72 from the day she landed the Channel pilot. Captain Scotland stated this passage would have been shortened but for the fact that for the last five days she had to contend with thick, dirty weather, owing to which no observations could be taken, and she came on by dead reckoning, making Cape Saunders her first landfall. "On the arrival of the ship at Port Chalmers," says the "Otago Daily Times," "Captain Scotland was not only congratulated on the splendid run, but for the record voyage from New Zealand (including detentions), and back to Port Chalmers, in the short space of six months and twenty-three days, she having left Lyttelton with a full cargo of wheat on August 14, 1888, called at Falmouth for orders on November 6.page 28 and after lying there for six days, was ordered on to London. Having discharged her cargo, she took on board 600 tons of cement, which was landed at Glasgow, and then loaded 1800 tons of general cargo."