Booth, Thomas. Papers, 1857 - 1859. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2002/56
My gg grandparents, Samuel and Elizabeth Harris travelled to NZ in 1859 on the clipper ship the Tornado. This blog contains the story of that journey and the people on it, told mainly through the diaries of Alexander Campbell, Thomas Booth and a "Glasgow Emigrant" as well as other information I have stumbled over from time to time.
Friday, August 9, 2013
27 August 1859
27th. A dull and squally morning following by a rough day and after we had cleaned our berths ready for Sunday the sea came over the mid ships and from neglect of corking round our hatchway she shipped us several buckets of water down our clean floor but we soon put all right again. The ship labored hard all day and part of the night.
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seawater in cabins,
Tornado
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