- Historic/Older Vessels

1. SHIELDHALL (1955/1972grt/IMO 5322752) built by Lobnitz and Co of Renfrew, Scotland to carry treated sewage she is today the worlds largest steam-powered, general-cargo, passenger ship in the world...
Date: 2019
Image ID 13562

2. RY BRITANNIA (1953/5769gt/IMO 8635306) and the Jubille Sailing Trust's tall ship LORD NELSON, both at anchor off Cowes, Isle of Wight, during Regatta Week, 1996.
Date: 1996
Image ID 12009

3. THE TOPAZ (1956/32327grt/IMO 5103924, ex-OLYMPIC, FIESTAMARINA, CARNIVALE, QUEEN ANNA MARIA, EMPRESS OF BRITAIN) in the colours of the Peaceboat, a Japan-based non-governmental organisation (NGO),...
Date: 13 January 2005
Image ID 11475

4. LUSITANIA MEMORIAL - in Old Church Cemetery, Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. Commemorating the sinking by the German submarine U-20 during WWI on 7 May 1915 near the Old Head of Kinsale on Ireland's west...
Date: July 2018
Image ID 11374

5. HMS VICTORY - Admiral Nelson's flagship, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, England.
Date: 1994
Image ID 11357

6. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. 3 men in a boat named VICTORIA. Not a participant in the race this charming little steamer is based at the Voyager National Maritime Museum...
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10352

7. 2016 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY REGATTA TUG AND TOWBOAT RACE. 3 men in a boat named VICTORIA. Not a participant in the race this charming little steamer is based at the Voyager National Maritime Museum...
Date: 1 February 2016
Image ID 10336

8. 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

9. 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

10. HDMS PEDER SKRAM (F352) was a Peder Skram class frigate in the Royal Danish Navy which was in use until 1990. It is now docked at Holmen, Copenhagen, Denmark where she is a museum ship and part of the...
Date: 4 July 2013
Image ID 9098

11. AURORA (1900/6731 tonnes displacement) - still classed as an active vessel, she is a preserved Russian Pallada-class cruiser moored in St. Petersburg, Russia. Built at the Admiralty Shipyard in St....
Date: 29 June 2013
Image ID 9094

12. DUNEDIN STAR (1950/ 7,322grt/ ON 184273) and NORFOLK (1936/11,080grt/ON 165362) and TEMPLE MAIN (1958/8,005grt/ON 187760 at the breakwater harbour at Napier, NZ. NORFOLK was built as ESSEX, renamed...
Date: 8 July 1962
Image ID 9070

13. Vessels of all ages are seen in action on Auckland's Anniversary Day. Here, just off Princess Wharf and the Hilton Hotel, BONDI BELLE (1898, nearest camera), HAMAL (at left, built 1976) and the tug...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8631

14. BONDI BELLE (1898) once used as a log tug at Opua in the Bay of Islands and later the Hokianga, NZ around the turn of the 20th century, trails Thomson Towboats' MAHIA and CHRISTINE MARY on the...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8611

15. BONDI BELLE (1898) trails (L-R) DALDY, CHRISTINE MARY, WAKA KUME and MAHIA as they prepare to round the first mark in the 2013 Auckland Anniversary Regatta tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8604

16. Federal S.N. Co. NORTHUMBERLAND loading apples at Albany, West Australia. NORTHUMBERLAND was built 1955, 10,335 gross tons, Official No. 186233.
Date: April 1966
Image ID 8401

17. Steam ferry TAKAPUNA at Auckland. Launched 1924 for Devonport Steam Ferry Co. and originally the LAKE TAKAPUNA. She was decommisioned 1967 and buried 1981 in the reclamation works during the...
Date: 10 September 1965
Image ID 8287

18. Lazy days in the Pacific approaching Panama on the RANGITANE, homeward bound from Wellington, New Zealand. A view from the docking bridge aft, where some of the crew would enjoy the sun. The...
Date: 15 August 1962
Image ID 8198

19. Lazy days in the Pacific approaching Panama on the RANGITANE, homeward bound from Wellington, New Zealand. There is a game of deck tennis in progress. Many will be having an afternoon rest away from...
Date: 15 August 1962
Image ID 8197

20. Papeete, Tahiti. The islands trader is the APANUI, bought by H. Williams in the Cook Islands from the Northern Steam Ship Company the previous year. She had been built as the GOLDFINDER in Hamburg in...
Date: 3 August 1962
Image ID 8196

21. Morning arrival for New Zealand Shipping Company's RANGITANE at Papeete, Tahiti. She is homeward bound from Wellington, NZ for the UK - Tahiti was a regular stop on both the outward and homeward...
Date: 2 August 1962
Image ID 8195

22. 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

23. RAPAKI (1926/762grt) - a Scottish-built steam powered floating crane which gave 62 years service to the Lyttelton Harbour Board. Her crane was built by Sir William Arrol and Co, builder of Scotalnds'...
Date: 4 August 2012
Image ID 8114

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. FRANCE (1961/66350grt/IMO 5119143, renamed NORWAY, then BLUE LADY prior to scrapping) berthing in Auckland, New Zealand on her only ever visit to the port.
Date: 11 February 1974
Image ID 7656

31. CANBERRA (1961/44807grt/IMO 5059953) berthed at dusk in Auckland, New Zealand.
Date: 1968
Image ID 7655

32. BONDI BELLE (1898) chased on the run to the finish line by SIERRA (1917).
Date: 30 January 2012
Image ID 7580

33. 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

34. 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

35. TE HAURAKI (1920, foreground) and BONDI BELLE (1898) manoeuvring off Viaduct Basin during pre-race assembly
Date: 30 January 2012
Image ID 7519

36. UNIVERSE EXPLORER (1956/22162grt/IMO 5050567, ex-ENCHANTED SEAS, QUEEN OF BERMUDA, CANADA STAR, LIBERTE, ISLAND SUN, VOLENDAM, MONARCH SUN, BRASIL. Renamed UNIVERSE prior to her scrapping in 2004),...
Date: 31 July 2003
Image ID 7456

37. QUEEN MARY (26 SEPT 1934/80774grt/ON 528793) arriving in Southampton after an Atlantic crossing from New York, taken just three months before her final voyage on 16 September 1967.
Date: June 1967
Image ID 7421

38. QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 (1969/70327grt/IMO 6725418) sporting the slimline funnel of her earlier years, seen passing the Isle of Wight from the eastern approaches to her home port of Southampton, England.
Date: 1985
Image ID 7419

39. QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 (1969/70327grt/IMO 6725418) about to pass Calshot Castle at the southern entrance to Southampton Water as she returns to her home port following repairs in Germany. She was holed...
Date: 1992
Image ID 7418

40. RANGITOTO (1949/21,809grt/LR Number 5290179. Sold to CY Tung in 1969 and renamed ORIENTAL CARNAVAL) at Circular Quay, Sydney, during her cruise to Australia for the 1963 Melbourne Cup.
Date: 2 November 1963
Image ID 7415

41. ORSOVA (1954/29091gt/LR No: 5265772) rounds North Head outbound from Auckland, New Zealand homeward-bound to the UK via Sydney, Australia. She was scrapped in 1974.
Date: 1970
Image ID 7413

42. QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 (1969/70327grt/IMO 6725418) sits on the blocks during refit at the A&P shipyard drydock in Southampton, England.
Date: 24 November 1996
Image ID 7410

43. CANBERRA (1961/44807grt/IMO 5059953) - the welcoming flotilla making their way back to port after Canberra's captain maked the announcement over the ship's public-address system "FINISHED WITH...
Date: 30 September 1997
Image ID 7396

44. NORWAY (1961/76049grt/IMO 5119143, ex-FRANCE. Renamed BLUE LADY prior to scrapping) passes her former trans-Atlantic arch-rival Queen Elizabeth 2 (1969/70327grt).
Date: August 1998
Image ID 7379

45. 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

46. ELLINIS (1933/24315grt/IMO 5423790, ex-LURLINE) sailing from Auckland, New Zealand. ELLINIS was scrapped in Taiwan in 1986.
Date: 1971
Image ID 7359

47. AUSTRALIS (1940/26484grt/IMO 5014123, ex-USS. AMERICA, WEST POINT. Renamed ITALIS, NOGA, ALFERDOSS, AMERICAN STAR) arriving Auckland, New Zealand for the final time. As AMERICAN STAR and under tow to...
Date: 20 December 1977
Image ID 7342

48. QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 (1969/70327grt/IMO 6725418) sailing from her home port of Southampton, assisted by the tugs FLYING OSPREY (1976/243grt/IMO 7500798. Renamed BOA SUND), REDBRIDGE (1995/399grt/IMO...
Date: 1998
Image ID 7312

49. New Zealand Shipping Company's passenger ship RANGITANE approaching Gatun Locks on the Panama Canal. She is homeward bound from Wellington, New Zealand and the locks will take her down to the...
Date: 17 August 1962
Image ID 7188

50. Federal NORTHUMBERLAND alongside at Colon at the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal. She is outward bound from London for New Zealand ports, had a major failure on one engine the previous day, and is...
Date: 26 June 1965
Image ID 7187

51. Federal SUFFOLK approaching the Culebra Cut on the Panama Canal, homeward bound from Bluff, New Zealand. SUFFOLK was built 1939, 11,145 tons gross, Official No. 167330, and scrapped in 1969.
Date: 13 May 1963
Image ID 7186