23 July 1841. Pyke sailed from London again on 16 June 1842, arriving at Wellington on 7 November and Nelson on 12 December. In the later 1840s she sailed from London to Bombay. On 17 February 1855 she sailed under Captain A Rattray from Dundee to Hobsons Bay, arriving on 14 July. Gertrude Gertrude was a 560-ton copper sheathed ship (originally 453 ton) built at Sunderland in 1841 and owned by Ingham & Co. In 1845 she was changed to 703 tons with yellow metal sheathing. She sailed from Liverpool to Calcutta. In 1841 under Captain Thomas Fisher (or T F) Stead RN she was chartered by the New Zealand Company to bring settlers to Port Nicholson. She arrived in Port Nicholson on 30 October 1841 having sailed from Gravesend on 19 June 1841. One of her passengers was John Plimmer, known as the father of Wellington. Stead, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, had been the master of the convict ship Asia and had sailed to at least six times between 1822 and 1836. She sailed to Port Phillip and then to Calcutta on 5 December. She was in Singapore at the beginning of January 1843 and sailed for Madras on 4 January. On 6 December 1845 there was a report from the ship Queen that she had sighted and spoken to a barque named Gertrude at in the Indian Ocean almost midway between Australia and Africa. She was hoved to with her mizen top sail to the mast. The person on board identified themselves as the captain and stated that two days earlier she had been holed. She was taking on water and sinking. He was going to abandon her. Asked if he needed assistance he said no. His crew was now on a nearby Danish ship and he was going to join them. Whether this was the same Gertrude is unknown, but she did not appear in Lloyds Register after 1847. Glenbervie Glenbervie sailed for New Zealand in 1839 under Captain William Black. It was among a group of ships carrying settlers which were to rendezvous at Port Hardy on Durville Island on 10 January 1840. They were sent after the Oriental. The others in the group were the Adelaide, Aurora, Bengal Merchant and Duke of Roxburgh. The Glenbervie sailed from London on 2 October 1839 as a store ship. At the rendezvous they were be told