Welcome to the archive images of Tamaki Makaurau

NZ National Maritime Museum

 

New Zealand has a diverse maritime history.  The Maritime Museum presents this history in over 14 exhibition halls including on-water heritage vessels.  The exhibition starts with a 10-minute wide-screen movie on the arrival of the first migratory voyage to Aotearoa.  The museum is located

in the heart of Auckland's Viaduct Harbour

 

 

 

 For sailing and dining cruises on Auckland Harbour, contact

'Pride of Auckland' within the NZ National Maritime Museum complex

 

 

 

 

Confusion (for a non seafaring person like me) above Breeze,

one of Maritime's heritage Vessels

 

 

 

 

 From inside the museum, the view towards two of the waterborne fleet

.... the 'Ted Ashby' and 'Breeze'

 

 

 

 

A barrel full of Naval rope - an import Maritime tool

 

 

 

 

A harbour scene

 

 

 

 

At the Ship's helm

 

 

 

 

 Figurehead of a ship

A ship without a figurehead was like a ship without a sail

 

 

 

 

A painting depicting the wreck of HMS Orpheus on 7 February 1863 in

Manukau Harbour by painter Richard Brydges Beechey.  Of the 259 officers

and men on board, 189 died - the greatest loss of life from a shipwreck in

New Zealand waters.  This painting was done September of that same year

 

 

 

 

Rapaki, the giant steam crane

 

 

 

 

A passing sailboat

 

 

 

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