Himalaya

An iron fullrigged ship built in 1863 by Pile, Hay & Co., Sunderland. Dimensions 201'2"×33'0"×20'4" and tonnage 1008 GRT, 1008 NRT and 899 tons under deck. The forecastle was 31' long and the poop 60'.

1863 November: Launched at the shipyard of Pile, Hay & Co., Sunderland. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 48594 and signal VTKM.
1865: LR 1865-1866: Captain Hawkins.
c1865: Sold to Shaw, Savill & Co., London. Employed in the New Zealand emmigrant trade.
1865-1867: Owner: G.D. Tyser, London. Captain C.B. Cow.
1865 November 2 - February 3: Sailed from London to Lyttelton in 91 days.
1866 November 2 - February 11: Sailed from London to Lyttelton in 101 days, or 78 days out from the Lizard light. Had been detained by heavy gales for ten days in the Channel.
1870: LR 1870-1871: Captain W. Hawkins.
1872: LR 1872-1873: Owner: G.D. Tyser, London. Captain W. Hawkins.
1872 November 29 - March 3: Sailed from London to Lyttelton in 94 days. Under command of Captain A. Friston.
1873 December 20 - April 12: Sailed from London to Port Chalmers in 113 days. Under command of Captain Friston.
1875-1877: Under command of Captain Grant.
1875 July 27 - November 17: Sailed from London to Lyttelton in 113 days.
1876 October 7 - January 24: Sailed from London to Wellington in 108 days.
1878 January 15 - May 7: Sailed from London to Lyttelton in 112 days. Under command of Captain Williams.
1879 January 16 - April 17: Sailed from London to Lyttelton in 91 days. Under command of Captain E. Pitfield.
1880: Reduced to barque-rig.
1880-1885: Under command of Captain Culbert.
1880 February 6 - May 17: Sailed from London to Wellington in 101 days.
1881 January 4 - April 24: Sailed from London to Wellington in 119 days.
1881 December 4 - March 17: Sailed from London to Port Chalmers in 103 days.
1882: Transferred to Shaw Savill & Albion, Southampton.
1883 January 8 - April 16: Sailed from London to Lyttelton in 94 days.
1883 December 13 - April 5: Sailed from London to Port Chalmers in 114 days.
1885 July 1 - October 29: Sailed from London to Port Chalmers in 118 days.
1886-1889: Captain Paterson.
1886 June 30 - October 1: Sailed from London to Port Chalmers in 93 days.
1886 August 20: The coal cargo which was carried as ballast caught fire in lat. 33°S, long. 25°W.
1887 August 5 - November 8: Sailed from London to Wellington in 95 days.
1888 July 10 - October 27: Sailed from London to Wellington in 107 days.
1889 August 14 - December 6: Sailed from London to Wellington in 114 days.
1890-1895: Under command of Captain Hill.
1890 June 15 - October 5: Sailed from London to Wellington in 112 days. Was detained outside the Wellington Heads waiting for a favourable wind for ten days.
1891 May 20 - September 25: Sailed from London to Auckland in 126 days.
1892 August 27 - December 11: Sailed from London to Auckland in 105 days.
1893 November 7 - February 5: Sailed from London to Port Chalmers in 90 days.
1894 November 9 - February 25: Sailed from Liverpool to Wellington in 109 days. Arrived at Cape Farewell on February 17, but was detained in the Straits for ten days.
1896 February 19 - June 2: Sailed from London to Port Chalmers in 93 days.
1896/1901: Sold to Alaska Packers Co. and was renamed Star of Peru. [Fairburn has 1901]
19__: Sold to Noumea to be used as a coal hulk.

References:

Square-rigged ships, general references.
Brett, Henry: White Wings. Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade 1850-1900.
The Brett Printing Company, Auckland, 1924. 8vo, 368 pp, ill.

Updated 1998-04-17 by Lars Bruzelius

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