Photograph: PS OSPREY and SS HIRERE, Auckland Harbour, early 1900s

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Photograph Album No. 42 Auckland Harbour Board: Engineers Album, p18. Auckland Harbour. Photographer: William Thompson Wilson (Series 112). Paddlesteamer OSPREY (left) is headed for Northcote and SS HIRERE is berthed at the right.

Accession number

2010.132.80

Museum System ID

36925

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Photographic material

Subject category

Ports & Harbours Auckland Harbour Board Harbour Boards New Zealand Government Departments & Agencies Government & Regulations Wharves PS OSPREY (1887) Ferry Vessel Type SS HIRERE (1897) Steamship

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The paddlesteamer on left is the OSPREY, she's on her way to Northcotethe tiny wee steamer on the right is HIRERE she ran to Clevedon The ferry wharf was completed by 30 September 19o7 and ferries started using it from Monday 23 December 1907. the wharf ahead was B Shed and this was taken away in 1913

- balderston posted 3 months ago.

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