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The ''Marchioness'' was a 176-ton brigantine built at Waterford, Ireland in 1851 and registered at Melbourne that sailed between Nelson, New Zealand and Melbourne, Australia in the 1850s.〔Shipping Intelligence, Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIII, Issue 671, 30 September 1854, Page 2〕 The ship's dimensions were 91.7 x 20 x 13 ft. It founded on rocks of the Taranaki coast in 1864 and was lost with no loss of life. ==First grounding== On 15 December 1852 the ''Marchioness'' under Captain Fowler sailed to Adelaide from Table Bay, near Cape Town.〔Shipping Intelligence, South Australian Register, 1 February 1853, page 2〕 It then sailed on 22 February 1853 with 10,218 ounces of gold for Calcutta.〔South Australia, Empire, Sydney, New South Wales, 17 March 1853, page 3〕 By 1 August she was back in Cape Town preparing to return to Australia.〔Loss of the City of Poonah, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 September 1853, page 4〕 On 5 October 1853 under Captain Fowler while inward bound from the Cape of Good Hope, the ''Marchioness'' struck the Point Lonsdale Reef, Port Phillip heads. She was initially floated free, but was taking on water. She was then run ashore on Swan Island for repair.〔Shipping, Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer, 6 October 1853, page 2〕 Its next voyage from Melbourne was to Wellington on 3 February 1854.〔Shipping Intelligence - Melbourne, Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer, 6 February 1854, page 4〕 The ship would have been laid up at Melbourne being repaired and possibly refitted before sailing on the Tasman route. Ownership may also have changed. On 29 July 1854 the ''Marchioness'' was in Wellington,〔Advertisements Column 5, New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 938, 29 July 1854, Page 2〕 On 27 September 1854 the ship bought Nelson's first mayor, Joseph Dodson, his wife, and their four children to Nelson. On this journey under Captain Kreeft from Melbourne to Nelson the ''Marchioness'' sighted and talked to the barque ''Cordellia'' which had its foremast sprung and jib boom gone. The ''Cordellia'' had sailed from London and was heading for Wellington, New Zealand. The ''Marchioness'' sailed for Wellington on the 28 September. On 12 May 1859 the ''Marchioness'' arrived in Melbourne from Lyttelton, via Nelson under Captain F C Kreeft. The paper described the ship as a 177-ton schooner.〔Shipping Intelligence, The Argus, Melbourne, Victoria, 14 May 1859, page 4〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marchioness (ship)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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