15/01/1859 - 31/05/1859

The Europa arrived at an early hour on Tuesday morning, having left London on the 19th January and taken her final departure from the Downs on the 3rd of February. The early portion of the voyage was marked by very unfavourable weather, which in a great measure retarded the vessel's progress. In the Bay of Biscay she passed the Ocean Eagle, and subsequently, on the 18th April, in lat.36°S.,long.9°23'E., she was assailed by a fearful thunderstorm, veering from N.W. to S.W. in which she had the misfortune to lose her maintopmast, topgallantmast and yards; but as the spar broke off at the shearehole of the topsail-halyards, a new hole was cut below, which has enabled her to carry the topsail, with a reef in it throughout the remainder of the passage. The weather, from the time of rounding the Cape of Good Hope, until she reached the Island of St.Paul, was very tempestuous, and several sails were blown away in the violence of the wind. She is deeply laden with a full cargo of general merchandise and bring 21 passengers, as well as an importation of ponies and other stock likely to prove advantageous to the agricultural interests of the province. The Europa was here in 1855, under the command of the same master, who politely furnished all the required particulars of passengers and cargo. He reports signaling several vessels on the passage, but none of them bound for the colonies except the clipper ship Blue Jacket, from Liverpool to Melbourne, which was spoken on the 4th April in lat.26°8'S., long.22°59'W. From the fact of her drawing 18 feet water, it is most probable she will lighten in Light's Passage before proceeding into the harbour. Register 1/6/1859