coal hulk in June. From 1879 she was owned by the Bay of Islands Coal Company Limited. She was broken up at Drunken Bay, Browns Island by David Gouk of North Shore in 1896. Bengal Merchant Bengal Merchant was a 503-ton sailing ship under Captain John Hemery. 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 Aurora, Duke of Roxburgh and Adelaide, plus the freight vessel Glenbervie. At the rendezvous they were told of their final destination. Bengal Merchant was carrying 160 settlers. Birman The Birman was a 545 barque sheathed with yellow metal built at Westburn, Greenock by John Scott & Sons in 1840. Her yard number was 131 and she was launched on 2 July 1840 for A & G Adam and J Ballantine of Greenock. The Birman was in Adelaide in 1840 and sailed for Calcutta under Captain John Clelland. On 13 October 1841 she sailed under Clelland from Gravesend arriving at Port Nicholson via Cape of Good Hope on 1 March 1842 with 243 settlers. She sailed for Calcutta on 31 March. She was sailing between England and Singapore in the late 1840s and 1851. Her master was given as John Guthrie in 1845. In 1851 and 1852 she sailed from Clyde to North America. Her 1851 voyage was from Greenock in July to Quebec, arriving 22 Aug 1851 with settlers from Tiree. These journeys were followed on 2 October 1852 from Glasgow to Melbourne, arriving on 21 January 1853. She sailed for Singapore on 25 February under Captain J Brown. She was believed to have been condemned in 1855. Blenheim Blenheim was a 375-ton barque built at Jarrow in 1834 and owned by Brown and Co of London. She sailed to Wellington under Captain J Brown in 1840 with 197 settlers. Sailed from Plymouth on 2 July 1842 under Captain John Gray to New Plymouth with 159 settlers, arriving on 19 November 1842, having called in at Wellington. Bolton Bolton was a 541-ton barque built at Liverpool in 1822 and owned by T Oldfield of London. It sailed from London on 1 November 1839 under Captain J P Robinson with 323 settlers for Wellington. It arrived at Port Nicholson on 21 April 1840. Bolton returned to Nelson, New Zealand