- Port Authority/Service Vessels

51. 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

52. FERRO (1905) seen during her first trip since being completely refurbished. The former Auckland Harbour Board pilot launch was re-launched on the 100th anniversary of her original launching.
Date: 29 November 2005
Image ID 11140

53. WAKATERE one of Ports of Auckland's pilot boats, is the first foil assisted catamaran pilot boat in Australia or New Zealand. She was built by Q-West in Whanganui, NZ, is 15.6m in length, has a 5.5m...
Date: 15 September 2017
Image ID 11058

54. WAKATERE one of Ports of Auckland's pilot boats, is the first foil assisted catamaran pilot boat in Australia or New Zealand. She was built by Q-West in Whanganui, NZ, is 15.6m in length, has a 5.5m...
Date: 15 September 2017
Image ID 11057

55. WAKATERE one of Ports of Auckland's pilot boats, is the first foil assisted catamaran pilot boat in Australia or New Zealand. She was built by Q-West in Whanganui, NZ, is 15.6m in length, has a 5.5m...
Date: 15 September 2017
Image ID 11056

56. WAKATERE one of Ports of Auckland's pilot boats, is the first foil assisted catamaran pilot boat in Australia or New Zealand. She was built by Q-West in Whanganui, NZ, is 15.6m in length, has a 5.5m...
Date: 15 September 2017
Image ID 11055

57. WAKATERE one of Ports of Auckland's pilot boats, is the first foil assisted catamaran pilot boat in Australia or New Zealand. She was built by Q-West in Whanganui, NZ, is 15.6m in length, has a 5.5m...
Date: 15 September 2017
Image ID 11054

58. PRACTICOS VII - pilot launch serving the port of La Coruna, Spain. Completed in 2015 by Seaward at Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, the Nelson 40-type vessel is 12.34m loa with a full load displacement of...
Date: 20 April 2017
Image ID 10950

59. AKARANA - Ports of Aucklands' 14.9m pilot launch makes for Wynyard Wharf to embark the liot for the sailing of the livestock carrier OCEAN UTE.
Date: 16 April 2017
Image ID 10914

60. NORTH SHORE RESCUE - Coastguard North Shore's new vessel touches the water for the for the first time after her official naming at their base in Browns Bay, Auckland.
Date: 4 March 2017
Image ID 10887

61. NORTH SHORE RESCUE (naming/launching ceremony) - The bubbly is poured on her bows by MP for East Coast Bays the Rt. Hon. Murray McCully who was on hand for the momentous occasion. He was joined by...
Date: 4 March 2017
Image ID 10886

62. NORTH SHORE RESCUE - The new vessel is presented to the invited guests during the official naming and launching ceremony held at the Coastguard North Shore base in Browns Bay, Auckland.
Date: 4 March 2017
Image ID 10885

63. DEODAR III - the crew of Auckland's high-speed police launch, take a quiet moment from patrol to check out the heavy transport semisubmersible vessel YACHT EXPRESS, with superyachts aboard, as she...
Date: 6 January 2017
Image ID 10811

64. WAKATERE one of Ports of Auckland's pilot boats passes the Indonesian Navy's KRI BANDA ACEH (LPD593), a Makassar-class Landing Platform Dock, during the Royal New Zealand Navy's 75th anniversary...
Date: 19 November 2016
Image ID 10731

65. WAKATERE one of Ports of Auckland's pilot boats passes the Japanese destroyer JDS TAKANAMI (D110) during the Royal New Zealand Navy's 75th anniversary celebrations. WAKATERE is the first foil assisted...
Date: 19 November 2016
Image ID 10730

66. WAKATERE one of Ports of Auckland's pilot boats, is the first foil assisted catamaran pilot boat in Australia or New Zealand. She was built by Q-West in Whanganui, NZ, is 15.6m in length, has a 5.5m...
Date: 19 November 2016
Image ID 10729

67. DEODAR III - an 18.5 metre Auckland police launch passes the Royal New Zealand Navy's Anzac frigate HMNZS Te Mana (F 111), Auckland Harbour.
Date: 16 November 2016
Image ID 10644

68. DEODAR III - an 18.5 metre Auckland police launch. Commissioned on 15 December 2007, she can reach 30 knots and remain away from shore for up to a week.
Date: 16 November 2016
Image ID 10643

69. MAERSK JABAL (2008/27910gt/39241dwt/2824-TEU/IMO 9343077, ex-BRIGHT FUTURE, ex-KOTA PERMASAN) alongside at Auckland's Fergusson Container Terminal. The former Auckland twin-hulled pilot launch...
Date: 4 September 2016
Image ID 10566

70. HARBOURMASTER 2 - the crew check use of lifejackets during their patrol of Auckland's Waitemata Harbour.
Date: 4 February 2010
Image ID 10388

71. HARBOURMASTER 1 returns to base following a busy morning patrolling Auckland's Waitemata Harbour.
Date: 26 January 2009
Image ID 10387

72. HARBOURMASTER 1 - on patrol, Waitemata HArbour, Auckland.
Date: 28 February 2016
Image ID 10386

73. WAKATERE - Ports of Auckland's most recent fleet addition, to date, accompanies Ponant's LE SOLEAL out of harbour as the cruiseship departs for Sydney, Australia. Wakatere is the first foil assisted...
Date: 9 February 2016
Image ID 10364

74. WAKATERE - Ports of Auckland's most recent fleet addition, to date, accompanies Ponant's LE SOLEAL out of harbour as the cruiseship departs for Sydney, Australia. Wakatere is the first foil assisted...
Date: 9 February 2016
Image ID 10361

75. 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

76. RESCUE ALPHA (TRILLIAN RESCUE ALPHA) - a 9.5m Naiad one of a fleet of three fast RHIB's operated by the Auckland Coastguard out of their base at the Marine Rescue Centre at Mechanics Bay on the...
Date: 16 August 2015
Image ID 10192

77. LOS 121 - Pilot launch, Tromsö Fjord, Norway.
Date: 22 March 2015
Image ID 10081

78. WILLIAM C. DALDY (1935/348grt/IMO 5390345) - Auckland's preserved steam tug, completes the 2015 Auckland Anniversary Day regatta tug race. In the background are two former Auckland Harbour Board pilot...
Date: 26 January 2015
Image ID 9956

79. PHIL WARREN 2 - named in honour of a former chairman of the former Auckland Regional Council, she is tasked with keeping the waters of the Waitemata Harbour free from floating rubbish. The second...
Date: 23 December 2014
Image ID 9884

80. PHIL WARREN 2 - named in honour of a former chairman of the former Auckland Regional Council, she is tasked with keeping the waters of the Waitemata Harbour free from floating rubbish. The second...
Date: 23 December 2014
Image ID 9883

81. HAURAKI (2014/250grt/124dwt/IMO 9681015) - Ports of Auckland's latest tug, passing Fergusson Container Terminal, arrives in Auckland from the Damen shipyard in Changde, China. She is accompanied into...
Date: 18 August 2014
Image ID 9661

82. HAURAKI (2014/250grt/124dwt/IMO 9681015) - Ports of Auckland's latest tug fleet addition arrives in Auckland direct from her builders. She is escorted into port by the pilot launch AKARANA while the...
Date: 18 August 2014
Image ID 9660

83. HAURAKI (2014/250grt/124dwt/IMO 9681015) - Ports of Auckland's latest tug fleet addition arriving in Auckland direct from her builders. Sailed from China to New Zealand the Damen ASD tug was built in...
Date: 18 August 2014
Image ID 9654

84. CAPE BYRON (2014/713grt/IMO 9684562) - in bound to Melbourne off Portsea. Built at Austal Shipyard, Henderson, West Australia, she was commissioned 19th May 2014. She is named after the Eastern most...
Date: 23 July 2014
Image ID 9640

85. HARBOURMASTER 2 - one of two high speed RHIB's used to patrol Auckland's Waitemata Harbour.
Date: 26 January 2009
Image ID 9621

86. ACHERON - a Ports of Auckland survey vessel at work off Devonport in the Waitemata Harbour. More details page 11 here:...
Date: 29 May 2014
Image ID 9589

87. HOEGH AFRICA (2004/57718grt/21214dwt/IMO 9277814, ex-HUAL AFRICA) arrives in Auckland from Melbourne, Australia while the crew of a NZ Customs makes its way up harbour.
Date: 8 April 2014
Image ID 9527

88. AMADEA (1991/28856grt/IMO 8913162, ex-ASUKA) outbound from Auckland on a grey summer evening, en-route to Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty. LION FOUNDATION RESCUE (Auckland Coastguard launch) passes...
Date: 13 Febraury 2014
Image ID 9440

89. EUROPA (Holland) accompanied by an Auckland Coastguard rescue vessel. The NZ flat-bottomed scow TED ASHBY is in the distance.
Date: 28 October 2013
Image ID 9265

90. EUROPA (Holland) accompanied by an Auckland Coastguard rescue vessel. The NZ flat-bottomed scow TED ASHBY is in the distance.
Date: 28 October 2013
Image ID 9264

91. PHIL WARREN 2- named in honour of a former chairman of the former Auckland Regional Council, this newly launched vessel is tasked with keeping the waters of the Waitemata Harbour free from floating...
Date: 22 September 2013
Image ID 9158

92. LAURA MAERSK (2001/50688grt/63200dwt/IMO 9190731. Renamed LOUIS MAERSK in 2023) - the fourth of five vessels to operate Maersk's Southern Star service, departs Auckland bound fro Lyttelton following...
Date: 8 August 2013
Image ID 9097

93. HAUTURU (Maori: Little Barrier) - The New Zealand Department of Conservation vessel used for transporting DOC personell and equipment between Auckland and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf.
Date: 17 July 2013
Image ID 9037

94. PHIL WARREN 2 - named in honour of a former chairman of the former Auckland Regional Council, this newly launched vessel is tasked with keeping the waters of the Waitemata Harbour free from floating...
Date: 6 May 2013
Image ID 8914

95. AUCKLAND HARBOURMASTER - patrols the Waitemata Harbour on a typical weekend which sees commercial shipping sharing the waters with multitudes of recreational fishing dinghies, yachts, powerboats,...
Date: 14 April 2013
Image ID 8839

96. AKARANA - Ports of Aucklands' 14.9m pilot launch, inbound to her regular berth after picking up a pilot from an outbound vessel.
Date: 23 February 2013
Image ID 8705

97. AKARANA - Ports of Aucklands' 14.9m pilot launch, inbound to her regular berth after picking up a pilot from an outbound vessel.
Date: 23 February 2013
Image ID 8704

98. JET RAIDER (1990, Fullers Ferries) off Devonport, inbound from Waiheke Island to the downtown ferry basin in downtown Auckland, NZ. Passing astern is the Ports of Auckland pilot launch AKARANA.
Date: 7 February 2013
Image ID 8667

99. DALDY (1977/226grt/IMO 7519127) crosses the finish line of the of the 2013 Auckland Anniversary Regatta tug race. The race committee boat AKARANA (built 1960) is in the background. AKARANA is a former...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8618

100. AKARANA (1960) a former Auckland Harbour Board pilot launch, now fully restored to her original condition, officially fired the starting gun for the 2013 Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8587

101. AKARANA - Ports of Auckland pilot launch accompanies Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior into Auckland from the Hauraki Gulf. Astern is a Waveney-class lifeboat, now a privately-owned vessel based in...
Date: 11 January 2013
Image ID 8523