Traditionally how many bells are sounded on board ship to herald in the New Year?
Herald (1826 ship) 16 February 1826 "Herald" departed Paihia for Sydney (Port Jackson) to complete her fittings and to obtain a cargo of stores for the mission. On board were a crew of three Māori men and three boys, two English seamen, William Fairburn as supercargo, William Puckey as mate, Gilbert Mair as captain, and Henry Williams. Also on board as passengers, were Mr and Mrs Puckey and their daughter, Rangituke (the son of Ana Hamu and Te Koki, a Ngāpuhi chief) and William Hall, who had become sick. On 20 June "Herald" departed Paihia on her first voyage to Tauranga to trade
Herald (1826 ship) Herald (1826 ship) Herald was a 55-ton schooner that was launched on 24 January 1826 at Paihia in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. While "Herald" was the first sailing ship built in New Zealand, a small vessel named "Providence" was constructed in Dusky Sound in 1792–93 by the crew of a sealing ship and it was completed in January 1796 by the crew of another sealing ship that had been wrecked at Dusky Sound in the previous year. In October 1827, the 40-ton schooner "Enterprise" was completed in the Horeke shipyard (also known as Deptford) in the Hokianga Harbour.