| Name: | STAR OF THE EVENING |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Keel: | 21/04/1863 |
| Launched: | 18/07/1863 |
| Completed: | 01/08/1863 (trials) |
| Builder: | J Wigham Richardson & Co |
| Yard: | Neptune, Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 22 |
| Dimensions: | 196grt, 142nrt, 130.4 x 21.5 x 9.6ft |
| Engines: | 2cyl (25 & 25 x 24ins), 60nhp |
| Engines by: | J Thompson, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 8.0knots |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 46468 |
| History: | |
| 1863 | Broomfield & Whitaker & Co, Sydney |
| 186X | R Macintyre, New Zealand |
| 12/02/1867 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | Raised quarter deck type with engines aft and rigged as a three mast schooner |
| Contract price £5,070; Profit £343 | |
| 12/02/1867: Left Napier at noon with three passengers, general stores & 1300 sheep | |
| By midnight, when in thick weather, the Captain assumed he was somewhere between Arial Rocks and Glebe End foreland, he was actually 12 miles north of Gisborne | |
| The conditions worsened to a gale with zero visibility by 2.15am when they ran aground. The gale battered the ship which broke in two near the engine room, the fore end being carried nearer to the shore. | |
| Conditions would not allow the lifeboats to be launched. | |
| The Captain and ten of the crew managed to swim ashore | |
| After 53 hours of exposure to the sea and gales, they were rescued by the schooner DONALD McLEAN and taken back to Napier |