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Ship Tahiti, Wellington Harbour, 1928 or 1929

from National Library NZ on The Commons

• 8 older comments, and then…
• sophie cécile xu said:

  this is a great shot.

• FrigateRN said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Nautical pictures of interest., and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Thales Prestes said:

  I think ...did take this Picture? HAHAHA

• topengtipu said:

  how can you capture this picture??it's very old picture.

• L Valdes said:

  Wow, the quality of the picture itself is incredible, the timing and the composition was perfect!!!

Steamship "Mapourika" under repair at Greymouth, 8 December 1898

from National Library NZ on The Commons

• Jens Roesner said:

  Really great to see! And it seems to be under steam, too!

• Bob Bello said:

  Historic!

The steam ship "Hawea" run ashore at the entrance to the Grey River, Greymouth, 30 October 1908

from National Library NZ on The Commons

• Jens Roesner said:

  A great shot, but a tragic sight. I never realised that the Grey River is so dangerous, but then again, the West Coast can be pretty rough...

• Lú_ said:

  Terrible event, but what a wonderful photograph!

• Marcello Sokal said:

  Great one!

• National Library NZ on The Commons said:

  @Jens @Lu There are many shipwreck photographs in our collections - some of them are extremely poignant. I suppose today we have no conception of just how risky sea travel was. -- Courtney

• Photos of the Past said:

  With storms hitting the US, there's a spooky coincidence that this one ran aground on this day 104 years ago