251. AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA - For the first time in its' 167 year history, what is billed as the worlds' largest one-day regatta, saw a fleet of 26 operational, retired, vintage and veteran tugs... Date: 29 January 2007 Image ID 3698
252. AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA - The 167th annual regatta saw for the first time a fleet of 26 operational, retired, vintage and veteran tugs and towboats racing for line honours over a 5 nautical... Date: 29 January 2007 Image ID 3699
253. LYTTELTON II (1939/303grt/LR No. 5215521) - Her engines are removed by crane following their acquisition by the Melbourne Steam Traction Enthusiasts Club. The engines, boilers and engineroom section... Date: 21 February 2007 Image ID 3795
254. LYTTELTON II (1939/303grt/LR No. 5215521) - Lyttelton II's engines, boilers and engineroom section of her hull have all been removed intact after acquisition by the Melbourne Steam Traction... Date: 21 February 2007 Image ID 3796
255. WYUNA (1953/1313grt/IMO 5393907) the Scottish-built former Port Phillip pilot cutter seen lifted by the synchrolift at Launceston, Tasmania. She has recently been sold by the Australian Maritime... Date: 8 August 2007 Image ID 4089
256. WYUNA (1953/1313grt/IMO 5393907) the Scottish-built former Port Phillip pilot cutter, is lifted by the synchrolift at Launceston, Tasmania. She has recently been sold by the Australian Maritime... Date: 8 August 2007 Image ID 4090
257. WYUNA (1953/1313grt/IMO 5393907) the Scottish-built former Port Phillip pilot cutter seen lifted by the synchrolift at Launceston, Tasmania. She was sold by the Australian Maritime College to unknown... Date: 8 August 2007 Image ID 10256
258. STADT RAPPERSWIL (1914) en route from Rapperswil to Zurich on one of the regular services on Lake Zurich. Date: 10 September 2007 Image ID 4211
259. Paddle steamer RHONE (1927 / 364 tons displacement) leaving Lausanne on Lake Geneva. Date: 12 September 2007 Image ID 4210
260. STADT RAPPERSWIL (1914) one of a pair of Swiss paddlesteamers plying the waters of Zurichsee (Lake Zurich). Built by Escher-Wyss of Zurich, she entered service in 1914 and underwent major... Date: 16 September 2007 Image ID 4170
261. PIONEER CK18 (1864/23 tons/Official Number 48991) was built in Rowhedge, Essex, UK in 1864 and lengthened in 1889. In 1942 she sank at her moorings at West Mersea. In 1999 she was raised and... Date: 22 September 2007 Image ID 4171
262. CENTAUR (1895/61 tons Official No. 99460) - a spritsail barge built at Harwich, England by John and Herbert Cann, she is owned today by the Thames Sailing Barge Trust and based at Maldon, Essex.... Date: 22 September 2007 Image ID 4172
263. Steam tug BRENT (1945/54 grt) resting in the early morning sun at Maldon in Essex. She was built as TID 159 and worked as BRENT for many years for Port of London Authority Date: 22 September 2007 Image ID 4208
264. Thames sailing barge CENTAUR (1895/61 tons Official No. 99460) on the River Blackwater in Essex with just a little breeze and some tide to help her down river. Date: 22 September 2007 Image ID 4209
265. BONDI BELLE - built in 1898 at Whakapara, Northland, New Zealand. She was used as a log tug at Opua in the Bay of Islands around 1920. After the mill closed, she relocated to the Hokianga Harbour.... Date: 28 January 2008 Image ID 4370
266. BONDI BELLE - built in 1898 at Whakapara, Northland, New Zealand. She was used as a log tug at Opua in the Bay of Islands around 1920. After the mill closed, she relocated to the Hokianga Harbour.... Date: 28 January 2008 Image ID 4371
267. FACILITATOR - a 9-metre motorised landing craft based in Auckland, New Zealand and servicing the islands of the Hauraki Gulf.
She is seen here at speed passing BONDI BELLE (1898) and KAREWA (1951)... Date: 28 January 2008 Image ID 4389
268. KAIPARA, MAHIA and WILLIAM C. DALDY make their way toward the start line of the 168th Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta tug race. KAIPARA (Total Marine Services): her builder and build date are not... Date: 28 January 2008 Image ID 4399
269. OLGA is a 54' wooden pleasure boat of workboat design. She was built in Opua in the Bay of Islands, NZ and her owners undertake the occasional towing job. She and the coal-burning preserved steam tug... Date: 28 January 2008 Image ID 4415
270. WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) - built by Lobnitz and Co in Renfrew, Scotland, she took 84 days to steam out to New Zealand after which she gave 41 years sterling service at the port of... Date: 28 January 2008 Image ID 4452
271. WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) - built by Lobnitz and Co in Renfrew, Scotland, she took 84 days to steam out to New Zealand after which she gave 41 years sterling service at the port of... Date: 28 January 2008 Image ID 4454
272. SOREN LARSEN and WILLIAM C. DALDY, Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta, NZ. SOREN LARSEN is a 125grt brigantine built in 1949 in Denmark. Although formerly registered in Colchester, England, she was for... Date: 28 January 2008 Image ID 4464
273. QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 (1969/70327grt/IMO 6725418) - There were no fireworks, no tugs with floodlit water plumes jetting into the night sky (Auckland currently has no firefighting-equipped tug). In fact... Date: 21 FEBRUARY 2008 Image ID 4501
274. FURIE was built in Martinshoek, Netherlands in 1916. She is preserved in operating condition at Maasluis and is seen here during the evening parade at Dordt in Stoom 2008. Date: 16 May 2008 Image ID 4664
275. Dutch steam tug DOCKYARD IX (250 grt/ built 1939) with passengers at the 2008 Doort in Stoom weekend in the Netherlands. She has a single double-compound engine with wheelhouse control and is... Date: 18 May 2008 Image ID 4661
276. For decades many New Zealanders exploring the "Mother Country" England, have, like millions of others from around the globe, visited the world famous Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, drawn there by the... Date: 30 May 2008 Image ID 4832
277. M/V DOULOS (1914/6818grt/IMO 5119105, ex-FRANCA C, ROMA, MEDINA. Renamed DOULOS PHOS) - the world's oldest ocean-going passenger ship at 94 years old, arrived today (9 June 2008) in Auckland, New... Date: 9 June 2008 Image ID 4691
278. M/V DOULOS (1914/6818grt/IMO 5119105, ex-FRANCA C, ROMA, MEDINA. Renamed DOULOS PHOS) - the world's oldest ocean-going passenger ship at 94 years old, arrived today in Auckland, New Zealand at the end... Date: 9 June 2008 Image ID 4692
279. M/V DOULOS (1914/6818grt/IMO 5119105, ex-FRANCA C, ROMA, MEDINA. DOULOS PHOS) - the world's oldest ocean-going passenger ship at 94 years old, arrived today in Auckland, New Zealand at the end of a... Date: 9 June 2008 Image ID 4693
280. M/V DOULOS (1914/6818grt/IMO 5119105, ex-FRANCA C, ROMA, MEDINA. Renamed DOULOS PHOS) - the world's oldest ocean-going passenger ship at 94 years old, arrived today in Auckland, New Zealand at the end... Date: 9 June 2008 Image ID 4694
281. M/V DOULOS (1914/6818grt/IMO 5119105, ex-FRANCA C, ROMA, MEDINA. Renamed DOULOS PHOS) - the world's oldest ocean-going passenger ship at 94 years old, arrived today in Auckland, New Zealand at the end... Date: 9 June 2008 Image ID 4695
282. MAYFLOWER II built in 1955/6 in Brixham, Devon, England, this is a 236-ton replica of the original MAYFLOWER which took the Pilgrims to set foot in the New World on 26 December 1620. MAYFLOWER II is... Date: SEPTEMBER 2008 Image ID 4900
283. QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 (1969/70327grt/IMO 6725418) sails from Southampton, England for the final time, next stop, Dubai.............. reportedly to be chopped, sliced and diced and extended and transformed... Date: 12 November 2008 Image ID 5063
284. VICTORIA - this little steamer is based at the Voyager National Maritime Museum on Hobson Wharf, Auckland. Date: 26 January 2009 Image ID 5149
285. BONDI BELLE (1898) powers past the steel-hulled former trawler TRINITY. BONDI BELLE was used as a log tug at Opua in the Bay of Islands and later the Hokianga, New Zealand, around the turn of the 20th... Date: 26 January 2009 Image ID 5147
286. BONDI BELLE (1898) used as a log tug at Opua in the Bay of Islands and later the Hokianga, New Zealand, around the turn of the 20th century, this immaculately presented, little 113 year-old vessel is... Date: 26 January 2009 Image ID 5109
287. SHIELDHALL (1955/1972grt/IMO 5322752) built by Lobnitz and Co of Renfrew, Scotland to carry treated sewage, she is today one of the worlds largest steam-powered, general-cargo, passenger ships... Date: 31 March 2009 Image ID 5313
288. RANGITOTO (1949/21,809grt/LR Number 5290179. Sold to CY Tung in 1969 and renamed ORIENTAL CARNAVAL) - ships plaque hanging in hall at Rangitoto College, Mairangi Bay, Auckland, New Zealand. Date: 29 March 2010 Image ID 6232
289. RANGITOTO (1949/21,809grt/LR Number 5290179.Sold to CY Tung in 1969 and renamed ORIENTAL CARNAVAL) - ships plaque, crest and photo hanging in a hall at Rangitoto College, Mairangi Bay, Auckland, New... Date: 29 March 2010 Image ID 6233
290. CAP SAN DIEGO (1962/9998grt, ex-SANGRIA, ex-CAP SAN DIEGO) - is today a museum ship at the port of Hamburg, Germany. She was the last built of six general cargo freighters for Hamburg Sud and were... Date: December 2011 Image ID 7363
291. TE HAURAKI (1920, foreground) and BONDI BELLE (1898) manoeuvring off Viaduct Basin during pre-race assembly Date: 30 January 2012 Image ID 7519
292. VICTORIA - an immaculately presented "puffer". She was not a tug race entrant, merely part of the spectator fleet. More info appreciated. Can anyone help please?
Date: 30 January 2012 Image ID 7525
293. Two of the race's smaller, older entrants BONDI BELLE (1898) and SIERRA (1917) chase WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935) on the run home. Date: 30 January 2012 Image ID 7579
294. BONDI BELLE (1898) chased on the run to the finish line by SIERRA (1917). Date: 30 January 2012 Image ID 7580
295. HM BARK ENDEAVOUR REPLICA - constructed in Freemantle, Western Australia and launched in 1993, she is a replica of HMS ENDEAVOUR, the bark commanded by Lieutenant James Cook when he charted New... Date: 15 April 2012 Image ID 7901
296. HM BARK ENDEAVOUR REPLICA - constructed in Freemantle, Western Australia and launched in 1993, she is a replica of HMS ENDEAVOUR, the bark commanded by Lieutenant James Cook when he charted New... Date: 15 April 2012 Image ID 7902
297. PS RYDE (1937/) built by William Denny & Bros in Dumbarton for owner/operators Southern Railways. She ran between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, England until 1969 when she was withdrawn from... Date: 2 July 2012 Image ID 8057
298. WILLIAM C DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) - The Grand Old Lady of Auckland Harbour has a new home at Hobson Wharf. The preserved steam tug is now berthed next to the Voyager New Zealand Maritime... Date: 10 July 2012 Image ID 8064
299. HOLLAND (1951/IMO 5153462) - is 57.35m loa and was built as a salvage tug in The Netherlands. Between 1951 and 1975 she salvaged 161 vessels. At times she was also used to provide ferry services... Date: 14 July 2012 Image ID 8084
300. CALSHOT (1929) a former tug/tender which served many of the great liners of yesteryear during their stop-overs in Southampton. She is seen here on her berth in Southampton where she is very gradually... Date: 14 July 2012 Image ID 8080
301. KATHLEEN AND MAY - the last remaining British-built wooden hull three masted top sail schooner moored on the River Torridge at Appledore, North Devon, England. Built by Fergusson and Baird at Connah's... Date: 22 July 2012 Image ID 8161