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The ‘Sir George Seymour’ Dropped Anchor at Lyttelton – 17th December 1850
On the 17th December 1850, the Canterbury Association’s third ship, Sir George Seymour, sailed into Lyttelton Harbour and dropped anchor at 10.00am. She had been at sea for 100 days and carried 227 souls. Out of the First Four Ships, she had been the last to leave England. Before her journey to Lyttelton in 1850, …
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The ‘Randolph’ Dropped Anchor at Lyttelton – 16th December 1850
On the 16th December 1850, the Canterbury Association’s second ship, Randolph, sailed into Lyttelton Harbour and dropped anchor at 3.30pm. She had been at sea for 99 days and carried 210 souls. There were 5 deaths and 9 births aboard. This sketch of the Randolph was made by James Edward Fitzgerald (our first Superintendent) from …
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Poor Old Puss – 1850
In 1838, Captain William Barnard Rhodes forced Canterbury’s first livestock overboard to swim ashore in Akaroa Harbour. In 1840 the McGillivary, Harriot, McKinnon, Shaw and Ellis’ farming party took the first bullocks across what would become Christchurch and in 1843, the Deans brothers populated the plains with its first hoof stock, horses and chooks! But …
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The ‘Charlotte Jane’ Dropped Anchor at Lyttelton – 16th December 1850
On the 16th December 1850, the Canterbury Association’s first ship, Charlotte Jane, sailed into Lyttelton Harbour and dropped anchor at 10.00am. She had been at sea for 99 days and carried 154 souls. There had been 1 birth, 1 marriage, 3 deaths and a disagreement between two passengers where one ended up being ‘socked’ square …
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