On 27th December 2024*, the Dutch Tall Sailing Ship “Oosterschelde” will sail into Lyttelton Harbour, NZ in what will be the start of the 175th Anniversary celebrations of the arrival, in 1850, of the first European settlers known as the Canterbury Pilgrims.
This is the same date, 27th December, that the last of the First Four Ships, the Cressy, arrived in Lyttelton in 1850.
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* UPDATE 26/12: The Oosterschelde arrived a day early – on Boxing Day