Massey’s Special Constables guard men loading or unloading cargo from the Athenic at Queens Wharf, Wellington, during the Waterfront Strike, taken 1913. The Athenic was built in 1901 by Messrs. Harland & Wolff, Belfast, for the Shaw, Savill & Albion Co Ltd. She was a twin screw, 4 masted steamer of 12.345 tons gross and 7.600 tons. see full size

Massey’s Special Constables guard men loading or unloading cargo from the Athenic at Queens Wharf, Wellington, during the Waterfront Strike, taken 1913.

The Athenic was built in 1901 by Messrs. Harland & Wolff, Belfast, for the Shaw, Savill & Albion Co Ltd. She was a twin screw, 4 masted steamer of 12.345 tons gross and 7.600 tons.

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Pamir was originally launched in Hamburg in 1905, she had a steel hull, a tonnage of 3020 gross, an overall length of 375 feet, a beam of 46 feet and a loaded draught of 24 feet. Her three masts stood 168 feet above the deck and the main yard was 92 feet wide. She carried a total of 50,000 square feet of sails and could reach a top speed of 16 knots. Accounts of this disaster abound on internet websites, but my personal memories of this event are from being an engineer crew member of RMS Rangitane, which sailed from Southampton near that day bound for New Zealand, via Panama, and our ship picked up Pamir’s distress call while entering the Bay of Biscay… keep reading

Pamir was originally launched in Hamburg in 1905, she had a steel hull, a tonnage of 3020 gross, an overall length of 375 feet, a beam of 46 feet and a loaded draught of 24 feet. Her three masts stood 168 feet above the deck and the main yard was 92 feet wide. She carried a total of 50,000 square feet of sails and could reach a top speed of 16 knots.

Accounts of this disaster abound on internet websites, but my personal memories of this event are from being an engineer crew member of RMS Rangitane, which sailed from Southampton near that day bound for New Zealand, via Panama, and our ship picked up Pamir’s distress call while entering the Bay of Biscay…

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SS Marama (merchant ship)  —State Library of New South Wales (image) S.S. Marama:Union Steamship Company of New Zealand ship Marama. Commissioned in 1907, Marama served on the NZ to San Francisco service. With the onset of WWI she was requisitioned by the NZ government for duties as a hospital ship transporting wounded from the UK to NZ. After the war Marama returned to civilian service until being laid up in 1937 —State Library of South Australia

SS Marama (merchant ship)

 —State Library of New South Wales (image)

S.S. Marama:
Union Steamship Company of New Zealand ship Marama. Commissioned in 1907, Marama served on the NZ to San Francisco service. With the onset of WWI she was requisitioned by the NZ government for duties as a hospital ship transporting wounded from the UK to NZ. After the war Marama returned to civilian service until being laid up in 1937

—State Library of South Australia

New Zealand: Clam Shell with painting of TSS TOFUA, Union Steam Ship Company., Between 1908 - 1932 This clam shell was painted by Frank Barnes, a marine painter of the late 19th and early 20th century in Wellington. Barnes worked on a farm in the Hutt Valley and financed his drinking habit by painting ships that passed through Wellington Heads and selling his works in town. Built in Scotland in 1908, TOFUA carried passengers on pleasure cruises to the Pacific Islands but also had a more serious role in providing a regular service between New Zealand and the Pacific carrying cargo and other supplies until 1932, when she was sold.

New Zealand: Clam Shell with painting of TSS TOFUA, Union Steam Ship Company., Between 1908 - 1932

This clam shell was painted by Frank Barnes, a marine painter of the late 19th and early 20th century in Wellington. Barnes worked on a farm in the Hutt Valley and financed his drinking habit by painting ships that passed through Wellington Heads and selling his works in town. Built in Scotland in 1908, TOFUA carried passengers on pleasure cruises to the Pacific Islands but also had a more serious role in providing a regular service between New Zealand and the Pacific carrying cargo and other supplies until 1932, when she was sold.

- SS Lady Jocelyn at Port Chalmers, 1888 - Built as part of the first regular mail service to India, she brought troops home from the India Mutiny in 1858. In 1863 she carried troops to New Zealand for the second Maori War. She was converted into a sailing ship and was chartered by Shaw, Savill & Co from 1869. Between 1872 and 1881, she carried emigrants from London to New Zealand, and between 1882 and 1889 she carried general and refrigerated cargo from New Zealand. From 1889, she was laid up as a hulk in the West India and Royal Victoria Docks and used in a variety of roles. She was broken up in 1923. — National Maritime Museum, London - Hulk of the clipper The Lady Jocelyn -

- SS Lady Jocelyn at Port Chalmers, 1888 -

Built as part of the first regular mail service to India, she brought troops home from the India Mutiny in 1858. In 1863 she carried troops to New Zealand for the second Maori War. She was converted into a sailing ship and was chartered by Shaw, Savill & Co from 1869.

Between 1872 and 1881, she carried emigrants from London to New Zealand, and between 1882 and 1889 she carried general and refrigerated cargo from New Zealand. From 1889, she was laid up as a hulk in the West India and Royal Victoria Docks and used in a variety of roles. She was broken up in 1923.

— National Maritime Museum, London

- Hulk of the clipper The Lady Jocelyn -

ZM1CH in New Zealand.  I wonder why they change from ZL to ZM? - Some interesting 1970’s vintage QSL cards -

ZM1CH in New Zealand.  I wonder why they change from ZL to ZM?

- Some interesting 1970’s vintage QSL cards -

The SS Wiltshire, a Great Barrier Island shipwreck from The Times of Friday 2 June 1922: The Wiltshire, a steel twin-screw five masted insulated cargo steamer of 12,169 tons gross, built by John Brown and Co., Limited at Clydebank in 1912 and owned by the Federal Steam Navigation Company, Limited was driven ashore during a terrific easterly gale with blinding driving rain. She was swept by mountainous seas, which dashed against the precipitous cliffs of the inhabited shore of Rosalie Bay. The vessel broke in two and the after part disappeared… keep reading - transpress nz -

The SS Wiltshire, a Great Barrier Island shipwreck

from The Times of Friday 2 June 1922:

The Wiltshire, a steel twin-screw five masted insulated cargo steamer of 12,169 tons gross, built by John Brown and Co., Limited at Clydebank in 1912 and owned by the Federal Steam Navigation Company, Limited was driven ashore during a terrific easterly gale with blinding driving rain. She was swept by mountainous seas, which dashed against the precipitous cliffs of the inhabited shore of Rosalie Bay. The vessel broke in two and the after part disappeared…

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Union Steam’s luxurious T.S.S. Awatea was the “only way to cross” the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand in the late 1930s! - Cruising the Past -

Union Steam’s luxurious T.S.S. Awatea was the “only way to cross” the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand in the late 1930s!

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Ontdekking van Nieuw-Zeeland door Abel Tasman Datum: 14 augustus 1642 -Nationaal Archief

Ontdekking van Nieuw-Zeeland door Abel Tasman

Datum: 14 augustus 1642

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nationalgeographicdaily: Sea Pens, New ZealandPhoto: Brian Skerry Soft corals called sea pens, usually found at depth, and a blue cod appear in shallow waters in New Zealands’s Long Sound reserve, where tannin-stained water blocks light. When distrubed, sea pens emit a greenish light and can deflate, retreating into their bulbous feet.

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Sea Pens, New Zealand
Photo: Brian Skerry

Soft corals called sea pens, usually found at depth, and a blue cod appear in shallow waters in New Zealands’s Long Sound reserve, where tannin-stained water blocks light. When distrubed, sea pens emit a greenish light and can deflate, retreating into their bulbous feet.

1946 Victory Parade (set) HMNZT Maunganui (hospital ship) carrying members of the New Zealand contingent to the London Victory Parade departing the Wharf, Wellington, New Zealand on 20 April 1946. —Adelaide Archivist

1946 Victory Parade (set)

HMNZT Maunganui (hospital ship) carrying members of the New Zealand contingent to the London Victory Parade departing the Wharf, Wellington, New Zealand on 20 April 1946.

—Adelaide Archivist

1946 Victory Parade (set) H.M.N.Z.T. Maunganui carrying members of the New Zealand contingent to the London Victory Parade departing the Wharf, Wellington on 20 April 1946. —Adelaide Archivist

1946 Victory Parade (set)

H.M.N.Z.T. Maunganui carrying members of the New Zealand contingent to the London Victory Parade departing the Wharf, Wellington on 20 April 1946.

—Adelaide Archivist

The Flowing Tide of Emigration to Australia - An Embarkation Scene at the Royal Albert Docks “Seven hundred emigrants in the New Zealand liner Paparoa under the auspices of the Goverment of Queensland, who are taking special steps to attract the best class of settlers. As soon as the emigrants land on Australian soil they find employment waiting for them.”Photogravure from The Graphic, 1911

The Flowing Tide of Emigration to Australia - An Embarkation Scene at the Royal Albert Docks

“Seven hundred emigrants in the New Zealand liner Paparoa under the auspices of the Goverment of Queensland, who are taking special steps to attract the best class of settlers. As soon as the emigrants land on Australian soil they find employment waiting for them.”

Photogravure from The Graphic, 1911

SS Elingamite was a single screw passenger steamer of 2585 tons, built in 1887 and owned by Huddart Parker. The ship was wrecked in 1902 off the north coast of New Zealand carrying a large consignment of gold. Now the Elingamite wreck is a favourite site for adventurous divers because of the drama associated with it, and wild tales of lost treasure. more mpdrolet: Two survivors from the Elingamite, onboard the HMS Penguin, 4-15 November 1902 Commander Willoughby Pudsey Dawson

SS Elingamite was a single screw passenger steamer of 2585 tons, built in 1887 and owned by Huddart Parker. The ship was wrecked in 1902 off the north coast of New Zealand carrying a large consignment of gold.

Now the Elingamite wreck is a favourite site for adventurous divers because of the drama associated with it, and wild tales of lost treasure.

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Two survivors from the Elingamite, onboard the HMS Penguin, 4-15 November 1902

Commander Willoughby Pudsey Dawson

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rhamphotheca: Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae) from Birds of Australia by John Gould * It is found in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia; additionally, it is vagrant in New Caledonia and New Zealand. The species is migratory over part of its range. There are three subspecies, one migratory, the other two resident. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. The species is listed as least concernby the IUCN… (read more: Wikipedia)

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Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae)

from Birds of Australia by John Gould

* It is found in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia; additionally, it is vagrant in New Caledonia and New Zealand. The species is migratory over part of its range. There are three subspecies, one migratory, the other two resident. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. The species is listed as least concernby the IUCN… (read more: Wikipedia)