York. Oriental The Oriental was a 507-ton teak sailing ship built at Cochin in 1830 and owned by R Barry of London. She had a yellow metal hull installed in 1848. Her first journey to Australia was from Liverpool to Hobart under Captain Allen, arriving on 5 September 1835. A passenger was John Bede Polding, first Catholic bishop and archbishop of Sydney, and the voyage is recorded in detail by a priest accompanying him, Lewis Harding. Sailing under Captain William Wilson, she was the first of five 500-ton immigrant ships hired by the New Zealand Company to take settlers to Wellington in 1839. Aurora, Adelaide, Duke of Roxburgh, and Bengal Merchant, plus a freight vessel, the Glenbervie, followed, all sailing with instructions to rendezvous on 10 January 1840 at Port Hardy on D'Urville Island where they would be told of their final destination. Oriental made six voyages to New Zealand. In 1841 she brought more settlers to New Plymouth from London. In 1849 she brought 194 emigrants to the Cape of Good Hope. In 1850 she sailed from London to Melbourne under Captain T P Taylor, arriving on 23 September. She remained in Australian waters until 1851 when sailed to New Zealand and back under Captain Hyde. She remained in Australia in October 1852 under Captain Edward Shrewsbury and then sailed for London. In February 1854 she returned to Melbourne under Captain C Duggan and then sailed for Callao, Peru. In 1855 under Captain MacIntosh she brought 261 migrants to Adelaide from Southampton. She then sailed for Guam on 21 December from Adelaide On 25 July 1857 she returned to Hobart under Captain Nixon with 130 immigrants from London. Phoebe The Phoebe was a 578-ton (originally 471 ton) barque built at Sunderland by James Laing in 1842 (rebuilt in 1844), sheathed in yellow metal, and owned by Duncan Dunbar of London. She sailed under Captain William Dale sailed from Gravesend on 16 November 1842, arriving via Wellington at Nelson on 29 March 1843. Ernest Rutherford's grandfather and his father sailed on the Phoebe to New Zealand. On 25 September 1844 the Phoebe sailed to Tasmania with convicts, arriving on 2 January 1845. She returned to Australia in 1846 and 1847. Dunbar replaced the Phoebe in 1850 with the 704-ton Phoebe Duncan, also built by James Laing. The ship's figurehead was still extant in 2017 being sold by the Vallejo Gallery,