Bengal (Ship)

Date: 1789-1884

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-3039

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1868

From: Liverpool, Cecil George Savile Foljambe, Earl of, 1846-1907 :[Sketchbook] 1868

Reference: E-304-043

Description: Shows collision between the two steam ships `Candia' and `Bengal' off Abora Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 280 mm

Date: 1863-1866, 2000

By: Stuart, Henry John Richard Villiers, 1837-1914

Reference: MS-Group-0834

Description: Comprises journal kept by Stuart from 1863-1866 while he was travelling on the continent through Paris, Nice and Geneva, then his embarkation on the `Sea King' at Gravesend (Nov 1863) and coaling at St Vincent. He describes the entertainments on board, the weather, storms, death of a child born on board, arrival at Auckland (27 Jan 1864), meeting the 4th Company which had come from India, his journey to Otahuka and his first impressions. He writes of escorting carts and other military duties, painting views, problems of paying the men, Maori prisoners, in camp at Koheroa, of the engineers making a road, cutting firewood, seeing Tauranga, Te Puke, Wheranghi, fighting, arrival at Wairoa, orders received from Major Shuttleworth, visiting Te Papa, social activities in Auckland, Christmas (1864) and ends at Te Papa on 10 Jan 1865. Also includes abstract logs of the `Sea King' to New Zealand (13 Nov 1863-26 Jan 1864), `Wellesley', Melbourne to England (31 Mar-15 Jul 1866), `Prince Alfred', New Zealand to Sydney (2-7 Mar 1866), `Bengal', Calcutta to Southampton (23 Mar-1 May 1865); journal of voyage, `Wellesley' to Plymouth (16 Jun-15 Jul 1866); list of letters written (1863-1864); and chronological index to main part of the diary. Typed transcript of journal added to collection Electronic transcript is included in this collection. Source of title - Transcribed Other - Typed transcript completed in-house, May 2000 Quantity: 2 folder(s). 2 microfilm reel(s). 512 kilobyte(s) textual material. 0.07 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy and microfilm) and typescript

Date: 1863-1866, ca 1999

From: Stuart, Henry John Richard Villiers, 1837-1914 : New Zealand journal

By: Stuart, Henry John Richard Villiers, 1837-1914

Reference: MSDL-0078

Description: Comprises electronic transcript of the journal kept by Stuart from 1863-1866 while he was travelling on the continent through Paris, Nice and Geneva, then his embarkation on the `Sea king' at Gravesend (Nov 1863) and coaling at St Vincent. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).