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Passenger Lists: Port & arrival year 
Auckland (63)

Taruranga  (3)

• 1881 Lady Jocelyn - London to Tauranga  (Many passengers went on to Te Puke).
• 1881 May Queen - London to Tauranga 
• 1881 Rakaia to Tauranga 1881. (Many passengers went on to Te Puke).

New Plymouth  (3)

• 1841 Amelia Thompson
• 1875 Avalanche
• 1875 Halcione

Wellington (40)
Table of shipping. Arrived Port Nicholson from 20th September 1839 to  April 1844 

Nelson (4)
Nominated passengers

• 1855 Queen Margaret

• 1866 Dona Anita

• 1875 Mataura

• 1876 Fernglen  

Canterbury (116)

1850 First four ships  1850 Charlotte Jane arrival Cressy  Randolph          Sir George Seymour 1855 Colchester from Melbourne 1862 Arrivals Jan. - March 1851 Bangalore 1875 Blairgowie     1866 Blue Jacket 1866 Bombay    1863 Brother's Pride 1851 Canterbury  1859 Cameo 1851 Castle Eden image  passenger list  1879 Chile    1874 City of Glasgow to Lyttelton & diary 1879 Coriolanus 1851 Cornwall 1859 Contarf 1859 Cresswell  1871 - 1889 Crusader 1874 Carisbrooke Castle 1863 David G. Fleming 1876 Desdemona 1874 Dilharree 1851 Dominion    1851 Duke of Bronte   1875 Duke of Edinburgh   1851 Duke of Portland 1875-80 Edwin Fox 1876 Euterpe   voyages 1863 Evening Star 1872 Friedeburg 1871 Glenmark  1855 Grasmere 1855 Gratitude from Sydney 1874 Gutenberg 1860 Harwood 1882 Helen Scott 1878 Hereford   1879 Hereford  1879 Himalaya 1863 Huntress 1884 Ionic   1851 Isabella Hercus  & diary 1855 Isabella Hercus    1864 Ivanhoe   1866 John Temperley   1862 Kensington 1872 Lady Jocelyn 1851 Lady Nugent   1851 Labuan  1875 Lactura 1867 Lancashire Witch Archives LT Star 1878 Loch Cree   1882 Loch Dee 1862 Mary Ann 1873 Mary Shepherd 1860 Matoaka   1862 Matoaka 1862 Mermaid   1869 Mermaid 1862 Mersey 1871 Merope 1873 Merope 1876 Merope 1877 Merope   1879 Merope

1851 Midlothian    1853 Minerva 1879 Northern Monarch 1878 Olive 1877 Opawa 1877-78 Opawa 1878 Opawa 1879 Orari 1880 Orari 1879 Orthes   1876 Otaki 1874 Peeress   1880 Piako 1878 Pleiades 1880 Pleiades 1862 Queen of the Mersey 1875 Rakaia 1882 Rakaia 1880 Rangitiki   1882 Rangitiki 1859 Regina  1880 Remonstrant   1860 Roman Emperor 1859 s.s. Royal Bride 1855 Royal Stuart     1861 Royal Stuart 1882 St Leonard's 1852 Samarang  passenger list image  1861 Sebastopol  1856 Sir Edward Paget & onward to Otago 1851 Sir George Pollock   1876 Soukar 1879 Soukar   1879 Southesk 1881 St. Leonard's 1851 Steadfast  1882 Sydenham  1883 Taranaki  1853 Tasmania      1851 Travancore 1880 Trevelyan 1862 Victoria  1877 Wanganui   1878 Waikato 1879 Waikato 1879 Waimate 1880 Waimate 1883 Waipa 1879 Waitangi   1880 Waitangi 1882 Watangi 1884 Waitangi shipping papers  1877 William Davie   1852 William Hyde 1862 Zealandia 1863 Zealandia

Timaru (6)

• 1862 Echunga   
• 1863 Lancashire Witch
• 1875 Merope
• 1878 Opawa
• 1859 Strathallan & voyage account
• 1863 Victory

Otago (102)
Immigration increased during the Otago gold rush so the practice of publishing full passenger lists in newspapers was abandoned.  Only a few of the arriving and departing vessels are listed. In 1890 the Otago Witness only reported the San Francisco Mail steamers  passengers arriving at Auckland.

List of immigrants, debtors to the Provincial Government of Otago for Passage Moneys.  
Otago Early Settlers' Association - Lady Clarke, Poictiers, Phoebe Dunbar, and Eden
First Church anniversary, Dunedin
Clutha Pioneers
Picnic Otago
Chronological Records for Otago 1840 -1876
Otago Settlement Jubilee Number - March 17 1898  
1898 obituary summary
1899 obituary summary
1902 Chronological record summary

Cabin passengers:

Multiple NZ Ports  - 1880 Rotoura  
Wellington  - 1852 True Briton
Nelson  -1846 Madras,  1854  Eagle
Canterbury -

Crew Lists:

• 1865 Fiery Star*

• 1860 George Henderson 

• 1865 Invercauld

• 1865 Jack Frost

• 1883 Sarah W. Hunt  

Images: 

• Wild Deer                147k   1916 tons c.1880 by D.A. De Maus
• Waiwera                   170k  6237 tons    1900 
• Tongariri RMS       102k 7600  tons c.1910
• Queen Mary 2         316k  150,000 gtons, built 2003,  1,132ft length, width 131ft, max speed 29.6 knots (33mph)
• Passenger ticket     1863
• Passenger list page 283 k Castle Eden 1851 Lyttelton
• Passenger list page Samarang
• Surgeon's Report     72 k  White Rose 1875 Lyttelton surgeon's report

Maritime Art 

• Frank Barnes
• De Maus Port Chalmers ship photographer 
• John Gibb
• Rayner- lighthouse keeper - artist
• Tom Robertson marine artist
• The PM "Theresa Ward"
• Pictorial Works
• Timeframes
• Aurora                       52k     550 tons    1839
• Opawa                       31k   1092 tons    1878
• Red Jacket                84k   1649 tons    1854
  Currier & Ives commissioned a print - "Red Jacket" an extreme clipper in the ice off Cape Horn on her passage from AUS to Liverpool Aug. 1854.

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Ports: 

• Auckland
• Lyttelton Canterbury
• Napier
• Nelson
• New Plymouth
• Otago
• Wellington

Shipping Intelligence: 

In the emigration heyday, most major ports reported on ship arrivals and departures in a 'Shipping Intelligence' column in the local newspaper. The arrival reports are like all lists, never complete. The references in news stories can appear on any page and it is usually luck to find them so look three days either way.

• 1840             NZ Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette 
• 1841-1842    The Australian and New Zealand Monthly Magazine Port Nicholson  
• 1843             New Zealand Journal, London
• 1843-1844    Port Nicholson Shipping List  
• 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848, 1850 1851 Sydney Shipping Gazette Arrivals & departures at Sydney from and to NZ 
• 1842 -1843  The NZ Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser
• 1841- 1843  The Launceston Courier  
• 1843-1844   The Sydney Report
• 1844 -1845  Colonial Journal
• 1845  1846  The New Zealander    under construction
• 1851             Lyttelton Times 
• 1863 Dec.    The Southern Cross, Auckland       
• 1864             The Oamaru Times 
• 1864             The Timaru Herald
• 1877             Evening Post, Wellington 1887
• 1914             Auckland Weekly News
• 1915             Auckland Weekly News

Shipwrecks

• Foundered in NZ waters
• NZ Shipwrecks 1886 -1899
• Newspaper items
• Auckland Islands wrecks
• Chatham's
• Fire Afloat*
• Missing
• Toll of the Sea N.Z. pre 1899
• Kaipara harbour wrecks 1871-1915
• 1878 Ann Gambles
• 1877 Avalanche - collision
• 1883 Delaware
• 1856 Josephine Willis
• 1863 Orpheus  
• 1867 Montmorency* "Mr Fawkes, the ship is on fire"
• 1877 Queen Bee
• 1875 s.s. Bruce 
• 1879 Schiehallion
• 1874 Surat
• 1875 Cospatrick  passenger list
• 1881 s.s. Tararua
• 1886 s.s. Taiaroa
• 1866 s.s. London
• 1910 s.s. Waikare
• 1841 Sophia Pate
• 1893 Spirit of Dawn
• 1908 President Felix Faure

Otago Witness, 30 December 1897, Page 41
Old Mr Bentley (reading the paper) : "I see that in the recent storm at sea a ship loaded with passengers went ashore."
Old Mrs Bentley (placidly) : "How fortunate I can imagine how glad those passengers were to get on dry land."

Voyage Accounts

• 1869 James Nicol Fleming diary & voyage account
• 1873 Dallam Castle  Jury mast
• 1874  s.s. Atrato
• 1874 s.s. Bruce
• 1878 Bride of Lorne
• 1878 Opawa
• 1879 Stad Haarlem

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This page was last edited on 06 December 2022