Author: REED, A.W. Title: The Wreck Of The Osprey.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 24; 2 full page b/w illustrations, 1 full page map, bound in original stiff stapled wrapper, illustration pasted on wrapper, wrappers bumped, good copy. Wellington; A.H. and A.W. Reed, n.d. (1937). On 9th March 1846 Her Majesty's Sloop Osprey, a beautifully modeled vessel of 12 guns, commanded by Captain Frederick pattern, sailed from the port of Whangaroa, in the North Island of New Zealand. On the 11th march the ship was lost about 18 miles to the northward of Hhokianga.
Keywords: maritime ships ship New Zealand local history
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