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(NZ) NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO.
WAITARA (ex-HINDUSTAN) - i3s 883tg 1863 Glasgow
Photographer
Allan C. Green
State Library of Victoria
(Accession No. H91.250/564)
MATAURA (ex-DUNFILLAN) - 13bk 898tg 1863 Glasgow
Photographer Allan C. Green
State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H91.250/773)
RANGITIKI
(ex-SCIMITAR) - i3s 1,182gt 1863 Hull
Oil painting by
F. Tudgay
Alan Bott's "The Sailing Ships of the
New Zealand
Shipping Company, 1873-1900"
RAKAIA
- i3s 1,057gt 1873 Sunderland
Watercolour
by J.Forster
Alan Bott's "The Sailing Ships of the New
Zealand
Shipping Company, 1873-1900"
WAIMEA
(ex-DORETTE) - i3s 848gt 1868 Hamburg
Photographer
Alan C. Green
State Library of Victoria
(Accession No. H91.250/624)
WAIKATO
- i3s 1,053gt 1874 Sunderland
In dry dock
State Library of
Victoria (Accession No. H99.220/3018)
WAITANGI
- i3s 1,161gt 1874 Sunderland
Oil
painting reputedly by the ship's cook
Alan Bott's "The Sailing
Ships of the New Zealand
Shipping Company, 1873-1900"
WAIMATE
- i3s 1,156gt 1874 Sunderland
Watercolour by Jack Spurling
"SAIL. The Romance of the Clipper Ships"
Vol.
pictured by J. Spurling, storied by Basil Lubbock
ORARI
- i3s 1,054gt 1875 Newcastle
Photographer Allan C. Green
State Library of Victoria (Accession No.
H91.250/804)
OTAKI
- i3s 1,053gt 1875 Newcastle
Becalmed. Photographer George Schutze. State Library of Victoria (Accession No.
H99.220/2680)
HURUNUI
- i3s 1,057gt 1875 Newcastle
State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H99.220/2965)
WAIPA
- i3s 1,057gt 1875 Newcastle
Photographer
Allan C. Green
State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H91.108/772)
WAIROA
- i3s 1,057gt 1875 Newcastle
Under tow
State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H99.220/4348)
OPAWA
- i3s I,131gt 1876 Glasgow
Oil Painting by
G.H. Elvin
Alan Bott's "The Sailing Ships of
the New Zealand
Shipping Company, 1873-1900"
PIAKO
- i3s 1,136gt 1876 Glasgow
Watercolour by Jack Spurliing
“SAIL. The Romance of the Clipper Ships”, Vol. II,
pictured by J. Spurling, storied by Basil :Lubbock
WANGANUI
- i3s 1,136gt Glasgow
Photographer Allan C. Green
State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H91.250/421)
PAEORA
(ex-WHITE EAGLE) - i3s 879gt 1855 Glasgow
(ca.1877)
State Library
of South Australia (PRG 1373/2/11)
TURAKINA (ex-CITY OF PERTH) - i3s 1,247gt 1868 Glasgow
State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H99.220/2992}
Ship details from Duncan Haws’ “Merchant
Fleets: New
Zealand Shipping Co.
& Federal S.N. Co.”, TCL Publications,
Hereford, Updated & Reprinted 1988
N.B. There are
photos and ship histories for all the vessels listed above in
"Crossed
Flags: The Histories of the New Zealand Shipping Company Limited
and the
Federal Steam Navigation Company Limited and Their Subsidiaries":
by W.A. Laxon
with I.J. Farquhar and N.J. Kirby based on the draftby the late
F.W. Perry (World Ship Society, England 1997)
NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO. EMIGRATION CHARTERS FROM THE
MONARCH LINE- VOYAGES FROM MAY 1874 TO FEBRUARY 1897
EASTERN MONARCH - i3s 1,700t 1874 Sunderland
-made one
voyage with 500 emigrants to New Zealand - arrived Lyttelton July
1874
Photographer Allan C. Green
State Library of Victoria (Accession No.
H91.250/127)
WESTERN MONARCH - i3s 1,315t 1875 Barrow
- made four voyages with arrivals in New Zealand in 1878,1879, 1880 and 1887,
(ca.1885)
Stae
Library of South Australia (PRG 1373/7/33)
NORTHERN MONARCH - i3s 1,230 t 1875 Dumbarton
- made two voages with arrivals in 1879 and 1897
(ca.1884) State Library of South Australia (B10521)
Ship and voyage details from Sir Henry Brett's "White Wings; Fiffty Years of Sail
in the New Zealand Trade 1850 to 1900 "( The Brett
Printing Company Limited,
Publishers, Auckland 1924)
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