McCormacks Bay Joined The Greater Christchurch – 1st April 1945

On 1 April 1945, McCormacks Bay joined the Greater Christchurch and came under the care of the C.C.C. As the ‘Charlotte Jane’, the Canterbury Association’s first ship, sailed into Lyttelton Harbour that fine morning of 16 December 1850, William McCormack was ready to leave his steerage voyage behind him and make a go at a …