Alexander Gray who abandoned the Rosanna and had remained at the Bay of Islands. Saint Pauli The Saint Pauli was a 388-ton barque built in 1841 by Johannes Marbs. One source says it was a converted warship. She sailed from Hamburg on 26 December 1842 to Nelson with 140 German migrants including John Beit, the New Zealand Company agent in Hamburg. Originally the ship was meant to have gone to the Chatham Islands but the British Government squashed a proposal in September 1841 to sell them to the German Colonisation Company—yet to be formed—for £10,000. The Government declared that the islands were to be part of the colony of New Zealand and that any Germans settling there would be treated as aliens. She arrived at Nelson on 14 June 1843 having had a smallpox outbreak that forced her to spend three weeks in Bahia. On 26 April 1847 the Saint Pauli took German settlers from Hamburg to the United States, arriving at Galveston, Texas on 4 July. Sir Charles Forbes was a 364-ton barque built at Aberdeen in 1824 that sailed under Captain Thomas Bacon from Gravesend on 1 May 1842 and arrived at Nelson on 22 August with 187 settlers. Slains Castle The Slains Castle was a 504-ton barque built at London in 1836 and owned by Wigram of London. She sailed under Captain James Petrie with 242 settlers to Wellington and New Plymouth in 1840. In 1844 under Captain Dawson it brought more settlers to New Plymouth and also Nelson. She was in Australia on three occasions between 1846 and 1851. The first two under Dawson and the third under Captain H J Andrew. On 22 July 1852 she sailed from Gravesend under Andrew to Port Otago, arriving on 9 November,. During the voyage she sighted icebergs near 53 degrees South. On board was Tāmihana Te Rauparaha, who had been presented to the Queen Victoria. Thomas Harrison The Thomas Harrison was a 355-ton sailing ship under Captain E.M. Smith that sailed from London on 25 May 1842 and arrived in Nelson on 25 October with 355 settlers. Thomas Sparks The Thomas Sparks was a 497-ton sailing ship under Captain Robert G Sharp that sailed from Gravesend on 27 July 1842. She hit a rock at Table Bay, Cape Town on 3 October 1842 and remained there for 2 months for repairs. Leaving there in December, she arrived in