NameTypeArmamentBuiltNotes
Calliope6th rate frigate28 guns1837
Castor5th rate frigate36 guns1832
Driverpaddle sloop6 guns[17]1840First steam powered ship in NZ waters
Hazardsloop18 guns1837
North Star6th rate frigate28 guns1824
Racehorsesloop18 guns1830
During her circumnavigation Driver became the first steamship to visit New Zealand, arriving on 20 January 1846,[3] and was involved in the Hutt Valley Campaign, which was part of the New Zealand Wars. At the time of her visit she was described as a brig-rigged 6-gun warship displacing 1,058 tons with engines rated 280 horsepower.[4]
On 11 March 1850 she was docked in Victoria Harbour to witness Richard Blanshard assume the Governorship of the newly formed Colony of Vancouver Island, and issued a seventeen-gun salute.[5]
Fate[edit]
She was wrecked on 3 August 1861 on Mayaguana Island, the most easterly of the Bahamas, in the West Indies.[1] — John Currin (http://goo.gl/S3EwxZ) via John Currin (http://goo.gl/wjZcz1)
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