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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.
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 ...
The clipper route was derived from the Brouwer Route and was sailed by clipper ships between Europe and the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. The route, devised by the Dutch navigator Hendrik Brouwer in 1611, reduced the time of a voyage between The Netherlands and Java , in the Dutch East Indies , from almost 12 months to about six months ...
The ship heeled over on her side and broke apart on the beach, killing 189 of the 302 persons aboard. 189 1863 United Kingdom: HMS Orpheus – On 7 February Orpheus sank off the west coast of Auckland, New Zealand after grounding on a sand bar. Of the 259 aboard 189 were lost making it the highest maritime loss of life in New Zealand waters ...
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 ...
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 .