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New Zealand Company Coat of Arms. The New Zealand Company was a 19th-century English company that played a key role in the colonisation of New Zealand.The company was formed to carry out the principles of systematic colonisation devised by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who envisaged the creation of a new-model English society in the southern hemisphere.
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.
New Zealand Company ships; R. Randolph (ship) Roehampton (1852 ship) S. Sir Charles Forbes (1824 ship) Sir George Seymour (1844 ship) T. Thomas Harrison (ship) Tyne ...
The John Wickliffe was the first ship to arrive carrying Scottish settlers, including Otago settlement founder Captain William Cargill, in the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. [1] The ship was named after the religious reformer, John Wycliffe .
Edwin Fox is one of the world's oldest surviving merchant sailing ships. [Note 1] The Edwin Fox is also the only surviving ship that transported convicts to Australia.She is unique in that she is the "only intact hull of a wooden deep water sailing ship built to British specifications surviving in the world outside the Falkland Islands". [2]
Migrant ships to New Zealand (22 P) Missions in New Zealand (3 P) N. New Zealand Wars (4 C, 46 P) 19th century in Niue (2 C) P. 19th-century New Zealand people (8 C ...
SS Wairarapa was a New Zealand ship of the late 19th century plying the route between Auckland, New Zealand and Australia. It came to tragic fame when it hit a reef at the northern edge of Great Barrier Island, about 100 km out from Auckland, and sank. The death toll of around 130 people remains one of the largest such losses in the country's ...
Model of a 19th-century vessel in the Bishop Museum, Hawaii Model ship cross sections on display in a shop in Mauritius. Ship models or model ships are scale models of ships. They can range in size from 1/6000 scale wargaming miniatures to large vessels capable of holding people. [1]