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DRIVEN BY THE WIND

Author: Karen Stade

$50.00

  • Paperback
  • 170mm x 240mm
  • 213 pages
  • 0.69kg
  • Full colour and black & white photographs
  • Published 2019

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The Memoir of Captain Henry Rose.

“…Christmas Day 1847 we were in a gale of a wind in the Bay of Biscay, the ship being deeply laden made rather bad weather of it. One of the boats was struck by a heavy sea and smashed and the First mate had his leg broken. The Cook…told me that I would never see my mother again…”

So began the adventures of Captain Henry Rose, who went to sea as a 14-year-old apprentice and rose to command some of the fastest clipper ships in the world. He sailed the trade routes between England and China, the West Indies and the American seaboard carrying soldiers and horses, slaves, coolies and convicts. He took part in the tea clipper races of the 1860s, and he captained the immigrant ship Merope on her record-breaking voyage across the Southern Ocean to New Zealand.

Henry joined the newly-formed New Zealand Shipping Company in 1873, relocating with his family from London to become NZSC marine superintendent for the colony. He later joined the newly-commissioned Wellington Harbour Board and played a major role in developing harbour facilities here.
Driven by the Wind is based on a memoir Captain Rose wrote for his family in 1911. It has been extensively researched and expanded and is published at the behest of his great grandson.

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