This image is believed to have been taken by Palmerston North Engineer Edwin Daniel Berry or his son Frank. The ship is unknown but may have been one travelled on by Edwin on one of his many trips between New Zealand and Fiji.
Creator: Berry Family
Date: 1900s
The Felixstowe was a barque trading into Ōtaki. She was wrecked on 13 October 1878 when - like the Hydrabad in June of the same year - she mistook the northern end of Kāpiti, on which there was no lighthouse, for Stephens Island in Cook Straight. ...
Creator: John Tiffin Stewart
Date: 1878
The Hydrabad, 1350 tons, ran aground on the beach a mile south of Waitarere on the night of 24 June 1878. She was bound for Adelaide to Lyttleton, loaded with iron for the New Zealand railways and had few passengers. No lives were lost in the wrec...
Creator: John Tiffin Stewart
Date: 1878
This circumstances of this photograph are unknown, but it shows a schooner rigged scow named 'Advance' at a jetty alongside what appears to be a steam train or traction engine. This may have been the boat built by Brown & Sons at Kaipara in 1903....
Creator: Unknown
Place: Unknown
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1910
Diary written by third class steerage passenger on the 'Ionic', sailing from Gravesend and Plymouth in England to Wellington and Port Chalmers in New Zealand. The writer departed from Plymouth on 6 December 1884, with his wife and children (Esther...
Creator: Mr Cole [?]
Date: 1884 to 1885
Drawing of the ship "Hydrabad" grounded on the beach. The drawing is in pencil and water colour. Drawn on paper measuring 27 x 17.5 cm. While the artist is unknown, they were gifted to the donor by the son of J. T. Stewart, Government Surveyor.
Creator: unknown
Place: Waitarere Beach, Horowhenua
Date: March 1884
Stores being unloaded from the frigate by Iroquois helicopter. This exercise on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, was conducted by the Logistic Support Group of Palmerston North. Those taking were mainly from Linton Army Camp, with some pe...
Creator: H E Chamberlain
Place: Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf
Date: September 1977
Attendees of military exercise disembarking from a naval frigate at Great Barrier Island. This exercise on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, was conducted by the Logistic Support Group of Palmerston North. Those taking were mainly from Li...
Creator: H E Chamberlain
Place: Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf
Date: September 1977
Attendees of the military exercise wait aboard the naval frigate for their 'tot of rum'. This exercise on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, was conducted by the Logistic Support Group of Palmerston North. Those taking were mainly from Lint...
Creator: H E Chamberlain
Place: Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf
Date: 1977
This steamer went ashore a few miles north of the mouth of the Rangitikei River in May 1913. It was refloated two months later.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Rangitikei River Mouth
Date: 1913
A view of the Wharf and railway line with several vessels including a costal steamer tied up at the wharf.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Foxton, Manawatu
Date: 1910
The 47 ft 5 inch, $180,000 steel trawler was launched from the Manawatu Boating Club's Foxton Beach slipway at 12.06pm on Friday November 4 1978. The builder, owner and skipper is Jim Williams. Coral V joins his 32ft trawler (Regent), to fish out ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Foxton, Horowhenua
Date: 1978
Unidentified people visit the "Hydrabad" wreck. The "Hydrabad" went ashore on Waiterere Beach on 25th June 1878 in gale force winds while on voyage from Lyttleton to Adelaide. It was a full-rigged iron ship of 1250 tons net register, built in Scot...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Waiterere Beach
Date: 1966
The "Hydrabad" went ashore on Waiterere Beach on 25th June 1878 in gale force winds while on voyage from Lyttleton to Adelaide. It was a full-rigged iron ship of 1250 tons net register, built in Scotland in 1865. Length 229.5 ft, beam 32.2 ft, dep...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1966
Mrs Clarke's Transport Depot was located in Douglas Square, Rongotea. This business was later sold to N.I.W. Brown and Company Ltd.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rongotea
Date: 1920s
The location where this photograph was taken in unknown, but the ship is the "Halcione", an iron barque of 878 tons gross and 843 tons net register. It was built at Greene in 1869 by R Steele. Her dimensions were: length 191 ft; beam 29.4 ft; dept...
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1894 to 1896
A fleet of steamers plied the Manawatu River, transporting people and good to Foxton from the 1880s until 1939. This very large steamer would not have been a regular trader to Foxton Port.
Creator: Jack Anderson
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1905
The "Kennedy" was one of the many coastal steamers to use the port of Foxton. She was built in Sydney, Australia in 1865, as a three masted schooner-rig steamer. In 1905 the 'Kennedy' was converted from a single to a two-hatch vessel and the passe...
Creator: W T Masters
Place: Manawatu
Date: January 1925
"Queen of the South" was an iron screw steamer of 198 tons gross and 121 tons net register, built at Paisley Scotland in 1877. Her dimensions were: length 126.2 feet; beam 22.1 feet; depth 7.8 feet. Her engines were 40 hp. She was employed in the ...
Creator: L Daroux
Place: Foxton
Date: 1902
Troopship HMNZT 21 (SS Willochra) was used to take New Zealand troops to serve in World War One. This image shows it "camouflaged".
The image was held by Huia Heslop Mackrell, who travelled to Egypt in the Willochra to serve in Worlld War One.
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1914 to circa 1919
This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...
Creator: William James Young
Date: 1900 to 1932