The voyage of the barque Oriental to New Zealand in 1841
Captain: William Wilson
Surgeon Superintendent: Arthur Kemball
Sailed Plymouth 22 June 1841 - Arrived Wellington October 1841 and then arrived New Plymouth 7 November 1841
- A Passenger ListExternal
The Oriental, 506 tons, Captain William Watson, the third of the barques chartered by the company, sailed from Plymouth on June 22, 1841, and arrived at New Plymouth on November 7, after having first called in at Port Nicholson. There were only 90 emigrants aboard, and only one cabin passenger—Mr. Charles Armitage Brown, the friend of Keats, the poet. Sixteen other cabin passengers had left the ship at Port Nicholson, as they did not like the reports they heard about Taranaki. The Oriental had a fine weather passage from the Old Land.
- White Wings (volume II). Author: Henry Brett: The Brett Printing Company Limited, 1928, Auckland [1]