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Pandora, 1833
Type: Surveying vessel, late Packet brig ; Armament 3
Launched : 14 Jul 1833 ;
Disposal date or year : 1862
BM: 319 tons
Notes:
Jun 1833 is reported to have been fitted with Earle's fire-engine pump, which was trialled on board the Druid.
Portsmouth 19 Oct 1833 At Spithead : sails on trials.
1 Jan 1834 Employed as a Packet.
Falmouth 21 Jun 1834 Sailed for Mexico.
Portsmouth 21 Mar 1835 reported to have arrived Bahia from Falmouth 14 Jan.
Portsmouth 28 Mar 1835 is reported to have arrived at Rio de Janeiro 7 Jan., from Plymouth.
Portsmouth 16 Apr 1836 touched here today, from Sheerness, en route for Falmouth.
24 Apr 1841 arrived Falmouth from Belize (2 Feb) ; Vera Cruz (4 Mar) ; Tampico (13) ; Havannah (23).
Early 1846 West Indies and North America Station
20 Dec 1848 Surveying vessel, Pacific.
20 Feb 1851 Commander Drury sailed from Plymouth for the Cape of Good Hope and Sydney.
2 Jun 1851 Left Cape of Good Hope.
21 Jul 1851 Arrived Sydney.
23 Aug 1851 Will sail for Auckland on Tuesday next. Her first duty will be to survey the Hokianga.
1 Jan 1852 Reported by the Moa to be at Auckland.
6 Jan 1852 Went down to Waiheki last week to take water on board, returning Wednesday. It is noted that this should be the last occasion on which this exercise will have to be performed, with a new piped water supply nearing completion at Auckland.
6 Jan 1852 Sails for Hokianga, to complete the survey of the bar, and thence to Kiapara.
21 Jan 1852 Sails today from Wellington.
28 Apr 1852 Arrived Auckland from Kiapara.
17 Jul 1852 Departed Auckland for Sydney with the Lt. Gov.'s wife and servant onboard.
18 Jul 1852 On leaving the coast met terrible gales and storms, which stove in 3 of the ship's boats, blew out the sails, and delayed the arrival of the vessel at Sydney.
10 Aug 1852 Arrived Sydney for a refit. It is reported that the vessel has been absent for nearly 12 months on the West Coast of New Zealand, the rivers Hokianga and Kiapara, with all their branches, having been carefully surveyed.
31 Aug 1852 Departs Sydney to continue the survey of the coast of New Zealand.
12 Oct 1852 The Southern Cross of this date reports the departure of this vessel to Waiheki for water and thence to survey the East Coast of New Zealand, returning about the middle of December.
5 Feb 1853 Came up the Manukau where she is to commence a complete survey of the harbour. Since leaving the port she has been into Kawau, Monganui, and Hohora on the East Coast, as well as anchored under the North Cape, sounding the coast, and among the Three Kings, from whence she went to Ahipara, where she anchored and sounded the bay ; continuing the sounding of the West Coast towards Hokianga, when she was obliged to get on offing during a westerly gale - which was succeeded by NE winds until the 4th inst. Whilst coming up the Manukau she grounded a little below the Wahu, having no chart. She is at present anchored off Shag Point, a few miles below Onehunga.
15 Oct 1853 On Monday evening last resumed surveying operations on the East Coast, calling at Coromandel, from whence she proceeds to the Bay of Plenty, and Hick's Bay, East Cape.
25 Feb 1854 Reported to be at the Pelorus.
8 May 1854 Arrives Auckland for repairs, from Manukau, having experienced bad weather which caused much damage.
3 Jan 1855 Lying at Littleton, when the Waterwitch left and was to sail for Aukland in a few days.
25 Jun 1855 - Nautical notices of the coast of New Zealand - RoP re weather, earthquake, navigation etc - see page 207 of Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List for 1855.
28 Aug 1855 Pandora, Commander Drury, came into harbour on Saturday afternoon, after a surveying cruise in the Thames - Per New Zealander.
Precise date uncertain - 26 Sep - 13 Oct 1855 , Arrived Auckland on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Since leaving Auckland she has been on the north coast, touching Kawau and the Bay of Islands. Yesterday morning, she weighed and proceeded up the Waitemata, where she will be engaged for some short time on survey. The officers and ship's company of the Pandora have subscribed a day's pay to the Patriotic Fund - New Zealander 26 Sep - 13 Oct
1857 Coastguard watch vessel
1860 Coastguard watch vessel