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Kōrero: Shipping

Blue Jacket flying before the wind

<em>Blue Jacket</em> flying before the wind

In 1852 Captain James Forbes tested a new theory about sailing routes from Europe, making a round trip to Australia in less time than some one-way voyages. From then on most immigrants to New Zealand and Australia took the rough, cold southern route, often passing icebergs as the Blue Jacket did in 1855.

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National Library of Australia, Rex Nan Kivell Collection

Reference: nla.pic-an4053991

by Thomas Baines

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Gavin McLean, Shipping – Immigrant ships, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/5688/blue-jacket-flying-before-the-wind (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Gavin McLean, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 January 2016.