She is fitted with double topsail yards... She has a top-gallant forecastle, and raised quarter-deck; with an officer's house and cabin staircase...
The saloon is a very chaste apartment, of great length and height with remo styles and mouldings, with open iron scroll work for ventilation.
[7] In early 1864, while entering Auckland harbour returning from a voyage, Novelty ran aground on rocks outside the North Head.
[9] One of the sailors on board, David Bartlett, subsequently wrote to The New Zealand Herald newspaper, claiming that the account published was "a concocted tissue of falsehoods", and that the crew "did their duty as becomes the character of British seamen (pump or sink)"[sic].
[10] The Taranaki Herald, reporting on the same incident, stated that Captain Austin had only threatened to destroy the boats, if the crew stopped pumping.