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From the late 18th century, the country was increasingly visited by British, French and American whaling, sealing and trading ships. In 1841 New Zealand became a British colony followed by a period of wars. New Zealand gradually became more self-governing and achieved the relative independence of a dominion in 1907.
It was one of the New Zealand Company ships in the expedition to survey land at Golden Bay for settlement. The Whitby sailed from Gravesend on 27 April 1841. [57] The Literary and Scientific Institution of Nelson was created on board the ship in 1841. Captain Arthur Wakefield was the institute's Chair. At the time the location of Nelson was ...
Surviving immigrants from the first six ships celebrate 75 years in Christchurch (Godley Statue, 1925)Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Irish-born John Robert Godley, the guiding forces within the Canterbury Association, organised an offshoot of the New Zealand Company, a settlement in a planned English enclave in an area now part of the Wairarapa in the North Island of New Zealand.
Herald was a 55-ton schooner that was launched on 24 January 1826 at Paihia in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. [1] [2] [3] While Herald was the first sailing ship built in New Zealand, a small vessel named Providence was constructed in Dusky Sound in 1792–93 by the crew of a sealing ship and it was completed in January 1796 by the crew of another sealing ship that had been wrecked at Dusky ...
The Dunedin listen ⓘ (1874–90) was the first ship to successfully transport a full cargo of refrigerated meat from New Zealand to England.In this capacity, it provided the impetus to develop the capacity of New Zealand as a major provider of agricultural exports, notwithstanding its remoteness from most markets.
[5] [2] These ships were ordered in October 1863 and the first of them, the Avon and the Pioneer, arrived in July and October 1863 respectively and saw action at various points in the campaign. [6] [7] The Rangiriri and her sister ship the Koheroa were designed by James Stewart, a Scottish civil engineer who had emigrated to New Zealand in 1859.
Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship) Active (1801 whaler) Active (1805 ship) French brig Adèle; Adèle (1800 brig) Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Admiral Juel; Hired armed cutter Admiral Mitchell; Albatros (19th-century ship) Hired armed cutter Albion; Hired armed lugger Alert; Amelia Wilson (1809 ship) Ann (1807 ship) Anstruther (1800 ship) Atlantic ...
Timeline of New Zealand history The only recorded ship visit is a 3-day visit to Hauraki (the Waihou River between the Hauraki Plains and Coromandel Peninsula ) to collect timber. It is possible that sealers visit Dusky Sound and that whalers are off the north-east coast but no specific records of any such activity remains.