Maritime

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• Cossar.co.nz   (www.cossar.co.nz)

  If you are interested in history, particularly clipper ships and war history, you will enjoy this site. Visit for access to DVDs, books and pictures of your favourite clipper ships.

• HMNZS Taranaki   (www.hmnzstaranaki.org)

  The Web site dedicated to those who served on the "Tiddly T" in the Royal New Zealand Navy.

• Koeke Junction   (www.koekejunction.hnpl.net)

  A locator for bush tramways, flax mills, river ports and the ships that worked them.

• Miramar Ship Index   (www.miramarshipindex.org.nz)

  An historical database listing both merchant powered ships and naval ships. The Miramar Ship Index is based in Wellington and takes its name from the peninsula and suburb of Miramar, which lie between the Wellington Harbour entrance and the airport. Free access to the site and no registration required.

• New Zealand Division HMS Ganges Association   (homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~keefy)

  An association made up specifically of ex Royal Navy men who joined as boys at the age of 15 and went through the notoriously hard training school HMS Ganges. The school survived 1906 - 1976 and is now closed, however the comradeship that developed between all those who passed through Shotley Gates will never die.

• New Zealand Maritime Index   (www.nzmaritimeindex.org.nz)

  An index of vessels, organisations, subjects and people involved in the maritime industry. The index is compiled by the New Zealand National Maritime Museum.

• New Zealand Maritime Record   (www.nzmaritime.co.nz)

  The maritime histories ship index features more than 1,500 images from New Zealand's maritime history.

• New Zealand National Maritime Museum   (www.nzmaritime.org)

  An Auckland museum, showcasing New Zealand's maritime history in fourteen exhibition galleries.

• New Zealand Shipping Company Assn   (www.nzshippingcoassoc.org.nz)

  The company existed from 1873 to 1971, with the last ships being disposed of in 1983. The Association consists of former employees of the NZSCo and FSNCo.

• Rainbow Warrior   (www.rainbow-warrior.org.nz)

  Commemorating and celebrating the Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace flagship which was bombed over 20 years ago. The spirit of the Rainbow Warrior continues on through Greenpeace campaigns that seek a green and peaceful world.

• Seafarers Memorial Trust   (www.seafarerstrust.org.nz)

  A Nelson memorial established by the seafaring and associated industries to acknowledge all those who have lost their lives at sea.

• The White Swan Incident   (www.whiteswan.co.nz)

  An information site on the White Swan, which was holed by a rock while steaming down the New Zealand coast from Napier to Wellington.

• Tug Lyttelton   (www.tuglyttelton.co.nz)

  The Tug 'Lyttelton' Preservation Society is a non-profit organisation whose aims and objects are to restore and maintain the vintage steam Tug 'Lyttelton' in working order, to promote public interest in the vessel and to make it possible for passengers to travel on it by means of public cruises and chartered voyages around the Banks Peninsula area.