Boyd massacre

The Boyd Massacre occurred in 1809 in the Bay of Whangaroa in today's Northland, New Zealand.

Boyd was a British 395 -ton brigantine of 106 feet long and 30 feet wide. On the trip from Sydney Cove to New Zealand where they wanted to load kauri logs, the ship was captured in the Bay of Whangaroa of Māori, because the crew had whipped the son of their chief. The crew and the passengers, a total of 70 people were killed and almost invariably eaten part. Only Ann Morley and her baby, the cabin boy Thomas Davis and the two-year Betsy Broughton survived. After a triggered when looting the ship gunpowder explosion, the ship burned a few days later.

The incident was later depicted by several artists.

Louis John Steele, 1889

Walter Wright, 1908