- Tugs and towboats

151. BUSBY (1963) was built for the Whangarei Harbour Board. Today she is one of the smaller tugs operating in Auckland.
Date: 30 August 2019
Image ID 11898

152. IONA M (2011/104grt/133dwt/IMO 9621376) - classed as a utility vessel, this tug was built in Holland by Neptunes. Used for anchor handling, dredge support, supply, towing, hose handling and survey...
Date: 24 June 2019
Image ID 11820

153. WAIPAPA (2000/338grt/IMO 9212072) - the Ports of Auckland tug preparing to assist berthing the general cargo ship BBC COURAGE on her arrival from New Orleans.
Date: 9 April 2019
Image ID 11759

154. SVITZER OTWAY (2014/299grt/91dwt/IMO 9679828) hard at work on the Yarra River, Melbourne as she guides another arrival to Swanson Dock.
Date: 21 March 2019
Image ID 11707

155. SVITZER OTWAY (2014/299grt/91dwt/IMO 9679828) on the stern line of the container ship CMA CGM PUCCINI (2004/65730grt/73235dwt/5782TEU/IMO 9280627) in the Yarra River, Melbourne, Australia.
Date: 21 March 2019
Image ID 11704

156. The coastal tanker MATUKU (2016/29735grt/50143dwt/IMO 9657806) pulls away from the Wynyard Wharf oil installation with assistance from the tug HAURAKI (2014/250grt/124dwt/IMO 9681015) as she sails...
Date: 9 February 2019
Image ID 11640

157. WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345), Auckland's well known preserved steam tug takes a group charter on an early evening cruise on the Waitemata Harbour as Holland America’s MAASDAM...
Date: 8 December 2018
Image ID 11569

158. WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) - maintained and operated by the William C. Daldy Preservation Trust, seen during a charter cruise on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour, gives her passengers a...
Date: 13 October 2018
Image ID 11483

159. WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) - maintained and operated by the William C. Daldy Preservation Trust, seen during a charter cruise on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour, gives her passengers a...
Date: 13 October 2018
Image ID 11482

160. WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) - maintained and operated by the William C. Daldy Preservation Trust, seen during a charter cruise, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland.
Date: 13 October 2018
Image ID 11481

161. WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) - maintained and operated by the William C. Daldy Preservation Trust, seen during a charter cruise, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland.
Date: 13 October 2018
Image ID 11480

162. WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) - maintained and operated by the William C. Daldy Preservation Trust, seen during a charter cruise on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour, gives her passengers a...
Date: 13 October 2018
Image ID 11479

163. WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) - seen here heading our to greet the delivery from China of Ports of Auckland's three new-generation container cranes aboard the heavy-lift ship ZHEN HUA 25.
Date: 5 October 2018
Image ID 11471

164. LOVELY KLARA (2002/17150grt/28186dwt/IMO 9258325, ex-CARIBBEAN FRONTIER) arrived in Auckland this morning from Napier to take on bunkers at Wynyard Wharf. She is see here in the stream outbound to...
Date: 23 March 2018
Image ID 11248

165. TUHUA PORT WHAKATANE (1938) was built for the Whakatane Harbour Board. Having raced in previous years in the Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta tug race as TUHUA, her owner is I am told, at the time of...
Date: 29 January 2018
Image ID 11173

166. PUKE (1872) was built by E. Thomson at Aratapu on the Kaipara Harbour, north of Auckland, NZ. She joined the tiny VICTORIA as part of the spectator fleet for the 178th Auckland Anniversary Day...
Date: 29 January 2018
Image ID 11170

167. VIKING SUN (2017/47842grt/4797dwt/IMO 9725433) alongside in Auckland during her inaugural world cruise, seen here surrounded by an array of new and old tugs and towboats after the conclusion of the...
Date: 29 January 2018
Image ID 11169

168. WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) about to cross the finish line of the 178th Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta tug race. The pilot launch WAKATERE, Harbourmaster's RIB and a local yachtie...
Date: 29 January 2018
Image ID 11168

169. RAKANUI - a Picton-registered towboat (4), the tiny LADY MAY (22), the Ports of Auckland tug HAURAKI and the preserved steam tug WILLIAM C. DALDY begin their mad dash for the first mark of the 178th...
Date: 29 August 2017
Image ID 11167

170. MAUI 1 (23), RAKANUI (4), FERRO (33, far right), WAKA KUME (2, left) and CHRISTINE MARY (ex-QS MAPLE - centre) charge off the start line of the 178th Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta tug race).
Date: 29 January 2018
Image ID 11166

171. RAKANUI - a Picton-registered towboat and Thomson Towboat's CHRISTINE MARY (ex-QS MAPLE) start the 2018 Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta tug race.
Date: 29 January 2018
Image ID 11165

172. FERRO (33) a former Auckland Harbour Board pilot vessel launched in 1905 (fully restored and relaunched on her 100th birthday back in 2005) takes a slight lead from Thomson Towboats CHRISTINE MARY...
Date: 29 January 2018
Image ID 11164

173. TURIHAUA (1977/IMO 7532040), HAURAKI (2014/250grt/124dwt/IMO 9681015) and the preserved steam tug WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) power away from the start line of the 178th Auckland...
Date: 29 January 2018
Image ID 11163

174. PUKE (1872) - built by E. Thomson at Aratapu on the Kaipara Harbour, north of Auckland, NZ. Seen here showing visitors to Auckland around the Wynyard Quarter waterfront. In the background is the...
Date: 20 January 2018
Image ID 11152

175. PUKE (1872) - built by E. Thomson at Aratapu on the Kaipara Harbour, north of Auckland, NZ. Seen here showing visitors to Auckland around the Wynyard Quarter waterfront.
Date: 20 January 2018
Image ID 11151

176. MAUI 1 (1970/107grt) - built originally for the Port Taranaki Authority by the Whangarei Engineering Company (WECO). Used during the salvage of the grounded container ship RENA in Tauranga in 2011 she...
Date: 1 December 2017
Image ID 11115

177. HERENUI - a new addition to the Thomson Towboats fleet of red and black tugs, a familiar sight around Auckland waters.
Date: 16 April 2017
Image ID 11041

178. IBAIZABAL CINCO (2003/369grt/205dwt/IMO 9261097) tends the berthing cruise ship ARCADIA during approach to the berth at the port of Ferrol on Spain's Mediterranean coast.
Date: 5 June 2017
Image ID 10999

179. CAPRICORN ALPHA (2011/196grt/164dwt/IMO 9608879, ex-MITRA CATUR 8) - She is owned and operated by Heron Construction of Papakura, Auckland.
Date: 25 May 2017
Image ID 10958

180. LOYAL (1968/221grt/IMO 6826949, ex-HAUROKO II, HAUROKO) laid up at Auckland's Bayswater Marina since 2008 and looking every one of her 48 years, has been up for sale for scrap for some time but so...
Date: 30 November 2016
Image ID 10749

181. LOYAL (1968/221grt/IMO 6826949, ex-HAUROKO II, HAUROKO) laid up at Auckland's Bayswater Marina since 2008 and looking every one of her 48 years, has been up for sale for scrap for some time but so...
Date: 30 November 2016
Image ID 10748

182. LOYAL (1968/221grt/IMO 6826949, ex-HAUROKO II, HAUROKO) laid up at Auckland's Bayswater Marina since 2008 and looking every one of her 48 years, has been up for sale for scrap for some time but so...
Date: 30 November 2016
Image ID 10747

183. CLIPPER NASSAU (2011/12795grt/17257dwt/IMO 9473224) is manoeuvered toward her berth in Auckland by the tug Waka Kume (IMO 9212084), calling by today to take on bunker fuel. The Bahamas-flagged ship is...
Date: 22 October 2016
Image ID 10608

184. GOTTFRIED SCHULTE (2006/35991grt/42101dwt/3534teu/IMO 9328493, ex-APL SYDNEY) arrives in Auckland from Tauranga as the Ports of Auckland tug WAKA KUME (2000/338grt/IMO 9212084) comes alongside to take...
Date: 6 August 2016
Image ID 10539

185. LILOA (2003/5234grt/IMO 9264245, ex-REEF SAMOA, JULE, SOUTHERN PASIFIKA, INDIC, CALEDONIE EXPRESS, PAC SUNDA. Renamed TAN CANG VICTORY) is seen here under tow into Auckland by the tugs Kurutai (lead),...
Date: 10 June 2016
Image ID 10482

186. WILLIAM C DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) the Auckland-based preserved steam tug, inbound to her Hobson Wharf berth after an afternoon sailing under private charter passes the MSC VIENNA...
Date: 28 February 2016
Image ID 10376

187. WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) - the preserved steam tug and "Grand Old Lady of the Waitemata Harbour" lets rip on her ships steam whistle.
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10351

188. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. It's full power on as the competitors cross the start line. The free-for-all race sees tugs and towboats, new and old and of all shapes and...
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10350

189. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. Crossing the start line L-R are: WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345), TUNA (built 1938), WAINUI, BIG BUD (2003), KORAKI (yellow,...
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10349

190. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. They're off! The bow of TURIHAUA (1977/104grt/IMO 7532040) inches ahead of BIG BUD and WAINUI.
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10348

191. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. The 1956-built STRATHALLAN looking resplendent in her new livery.
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10347

192. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. STRATHALLAN (nearest camera), RONAKI (blue), STERLING (mostly obscured), WAKA KUME (2000/338grt/IMO 9212084) and WILLIAM C. DALDY...
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10346

193. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. STERLING edges ahead of STRATHALLAN, WAINUI, BIG BUD and CAPRICORN ALPHA (2011/196grt/164dwt/IMO 9608879, ex-MITRA CATUR 8), obscured).
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10345

194. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. RONAKI built for Auckland Harbour Board (AHB) as MANUKAU sometime between 1911-1916 by Charles Bailey Jnr and TURIHAUA (1977/104grt/IMO...
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10344

195. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. The 1917-built SIERRA, used as a workers ferry during the Auckland Harbour Bridge construction in the 1950's, Ports of Auckland's latest tug...
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10343

196. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. The preserved steam tug WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) makes a stirring sight as she churns past the finish line off the end of...
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10342

197. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. Close racing soon after the star gun between RONAKI (nearest camera), TUNA, WAINUI, WAIPAPA (2000/338grt/IMO 9212072) and, furthest from...
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10341

198. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. The preserved steam tug WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) and the 1920's/30's built former mussel dredge ROA are away on the first...
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10340

199. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. The 1920's/30's built former mussel dredge ROA and HAURAKI(2014/250grt/124dwt/IMO 9681015) head downsteam to the first mark.
Date: 1 Feb 2016
Image ID 10339

200. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. The crew of the Royal New Zealand Navy Commodore's launch see a gap in the harbour traffic as they attempt to cross the harbour to the RNZN...
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10338

201. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. The crew of the Royal New Zealand Navy Commodore's launch see a gap in the harbour traffic astern of the preserved steam tug WILLIAM C....
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10337