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The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, collects, preserves, and shares Aotearoa New Zealand’s knowledge and stories for everyone. This Flickr Commons account shares images from our collections. These images are made available for reuse and discovery, to support research, creativity, and storytelling about Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Sailing ship Examiner in the Port Chalmers graving dock, February 1893

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Ship Garthsnaid, ca 1920s

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  • Robert Carrier said:
    Wow. What a phenomenal photograph.
  • Lucy said:
    wonderful
  • Jonathan Stiles said:
    Often those young lads fell from the yards, either into the sea or onto the deck. They hoped for the latter as that way death would be more immediate. If they fell into the sea there was zero chance of rescue. The ship sailed on.
  • Terrific Lake said:
    best shot
  • Jonathan Stiles said:
    Imagine that ship pitching and yawing . . . . they'd experience being lifted and dropped dozens of feet: it would be hard to stay on! A very good account of what that life was like is written in autobiographical form by Eric Newby in "The Last Grain Race."

Sailing ship Alcestis being towed from rocks where she had run aground, probably in Otago Harbour, 1880s

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  • stormchaser_nz said:
    Looks like the vessel is being towed off the southwest end of Quarantine Island (St Martins) in the middle of the Otago Harbour
  • mambo1935 said:
    good shot!
  • b0b said:
    exquisite find, love the slow smoke trail, that steamer is trying hard
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