Can someone give me a few pointers please on where to search? My g grandfather Walter IRVING- 'sailed from Liverpool on August 12th 1862 in a Dutch barque Helvatia, Captain Meneke, and landed in Vancouver Island on January 13th 1863, being 5 months and 1 day on the journey' . This quote came from a newspaper interview given by him in 1916 on his reminiscing about his arrival to New Zealand and working the gold fields of the Inangahua on the West Coast of NZ. This article has only just in the past month come to light and I am so happy it has answered many questions and given me so much information. I would like to find more information about the barque/bark in question - I believe it is the Helvetia but the spelling in the newspaper article is how it was written. I would also like to know where to search for any diaries that can give me a feel for that journey, ship baord life and where the boat may have stopped on the way. Thank you in advance Anne Whitehead