3501. Vessels of all ages are seen in action on Auckland's Anniversary Day. Here, just off Princess Wharf and the Hilton Hotel, BONDI BELLE (1898, nearest camera), HAMAL (at left, built 1976) and the tug...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8631

3502. WILLIAM C. DALDY - the damaged rubbing strip after having been accidentally rammed by the tug GLADIATOR. And that was after the 2013 Auckland Anniversary Regatta tug race had finished!!
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8630

3503. GLADIATOR - after ramming WILLIAM C. DALDY amidships, the skipper of GLADIATOR, having regained control of his vessel, moves away as passengers inspect the resulting damage after the end of the 2013...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8629

3504. GLADIATOR on collision course with the veteran steam tug WILLIAM C. DALDY. Not content with having again terrorised the passengers aboard the old steam tug with their water-balloon catapults, they...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8628

3505. GLADIATOR on collision course with the veteran steam tug WILLIAM C. DALDY after the conclusion of the 2013 Auckland Anniversary Regatta tug race. Not content with having again terrorised the...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8627

3506. MAHIA and MANUKAU of Thomson Towboats of Auckland test each others resolve after the conclusion of the Anniversary Day Regatta tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8626

3507. GLADIATOR - displaying good water safety.... each and every person wearing lifejackets.... including "Dick Dead-eye"... as they terrorised the passengers aboard WILLIAM C. DALDY with their...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8625

3508. GLADIATOR - for once WILLIAM C. DLADY is not the target of Gladiator's slingshots, the crew of Thomson Towboats' MAHIA coming into the sights for once as the fleet make for the finish line of the 2013...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8624

3509. GLADIATOR astern of STRATHALLAN (left) and MAHIA charge for the finish line and home as they round the final mark in the 2013 tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8623

3510. Passengers aboard the veteran steam tug WILLIAM C. DALDY keep watch and prepare to take avoiding action as they again come under fire from the "marksmen" aboard GLADIATOR. MAHIA (red/black) closes on...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8622

3511. GLADIATOR, hot on the heels of Thomson Towboats' MAHIA, round No.15 buoy and head for the finish line of the 2013 Auckland Anniversary Regatta tug race. Ahead of them are CHRISTINE MARY (r) and HAMAL...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8621

3512. DALDY (1977/226grt/IMO 7519127) having completed the 2013 tug race displays before the crowds on Auckland's Princes Wharf while her operational counterpart WAKA KUME, also having completed the race,...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8620

3513. DALDY (1977/226grt/IMO 7519127) crosses the finish line of the of the 2013 Auckland Anniversary Regatta tug race. The race committee boat AKARANA (built 1960) is in the background. AKARANA is a former...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8618

3514. ORION - a first time entrant in the tug racing, she was built in 1963 by Saunders of Wellington. She is seen here on the homeward leg of the 2013 Auckland Anniversary Regatta race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8617

3515. BONDI BELLE (1898, nearest camera) closes on GLADIATOR as they prepare to round the final mark and head for the finish line of the 2013 tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8616

3516. REVENGE forces SHAMROCK wide as they round the second mark of the 2013 Anniversary Day Regatta tug race. In March 2017 SHAMROCK hit rocks entering Tutukaka Harbour in...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8615

3517. BONDI BELLE (1898) closes on STRATHALLAN on the homeward leg of the 2013 Anniversary Day Regatta tug race. STRATHALLAN motored north from the South Island port of Timaru especially for this event. She...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8614

3518. GLADIATOR hot on the heels of MAHIA charge down the homeward leg of the 2013 Auckland Anniversary Regatta tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8613

3519. GLADIATOR and BONDI BELLE (1898) charging down the homeward leg of the Anniversary Day Regatta tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8612

3520. BONDI BELLE (1898) once used as a log tug at Opua in the Bay of Islands and later the Hokianga, NZ around the turn of the 20th century, trails Thomson Towboats' MAHIA and CHRISTINE MARY on the...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8611

3521. SHAMROCK was built in 1915 for Faulkner Ferries of Tauranga. Today she is a well known charter boat on the Kaipara Harbour, north of Auckland, NZ. Here she heads first time entrant ROA around the...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8610

3522. Things got a little crowded at the second mark and turn for home. Here (L-R) ORION, STRATHALLAN and HAMAL round the mark just metres from each other.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8609

3523. SHAMROCK was built in 1915 for Faulkner Ferries of Tauranga. Today she is a well known charter boat on the Kaipara Harbour, north of Auckland, NZ. Here she heads first time entrant ROA around the...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8608

3524. GLADIATOR trails HAMAL (r) and ORION as they round the first mark in the 2013 tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8607

3525. SHAMROCK (1915) leads the 1917-built SIERRA on the first leg of the Anniversary Day Regatta tug race. SIERRA was built as a harbour ferry and general workboat and was used as a ferry for workmen...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8606

3526. Seen here making for the start line of the 168th Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta tug race. Built in 1915 for Arch McCarthy for the Waitakaruru to Thames run.
When the Kopu bridge was built she...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8605

3527. BONDI BELLE (1898) trails (L-R) DALDY, CHRISTINE MARY, WAKA KUME and MAHIA as they prepare to round the first mark in the 2013 Auckland Anniversary Regatta tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8604

3528. REVENGE (Total Marine Services Ltd of Auckland) heads for the first mark during their first time in the Anniversary Day Regatta tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8603

3529. ROA - built in the late 1920's/early 1930's by Sam Ford, was once a mussel dredge for the Coromandel Mussel Dredging Company. She is seen here alongside SIERRA (built 1917) passing to East Coast Bays...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8602

3530. TUNA - another first time entrant in the 2013 Auckland Anniversary Regatta tug race, was built in 1938 by Charles Bailey jnr of Auckland for the Tokomaru Harbour Board but later acquired by the...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8601

3531. RONAKI built for Auckland Harbour Board (AHB) as MANUKAU sometime between 1911-1916 by Charles Bailey Jnr. of Auckland. Making for the first mark in the race she leads first time entrant TUNA, another...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8600

3532. TAMAKI (1972/221grt/IMO 7226550) on the move to the first mark in the 2013 tug race trails astern of the veteran steam tug WILLIAM C. DALDY.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8598

3533. TAMAKI (1972/221grt/IMO 7226550) on the move to the first mark in the 2013 tug race. Passengers aboard the veteran steam tug WILLIAM C. DALDY, cameras at the ready, capture the action.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8597

3534. STERLING leads MAHIA and GLADIATOR into the first mark on the 2013 tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8596

3535. WILLIAM C DALDY (1935/IMO 5390345) the view from the bridge as the fleet charges for the first mark in the 2013 Anniversary Day regatta tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8595

3536. TAMAKI (1972/221grt/IMO 7226550) - manoeuvres for an advantageous position on the start line of the 2013 Anniversary Day Regatta tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8594

3537. Tugs, including GLADIATOR (centre), CHRISTINE MARY (right background) and MAHIA await the 9am starting gun for the Anniversary Day Regatta tug race in Auckland.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8593

3538. DALDY (1977/226grt/IMO 7519127) & WAKA KUME (2000/338grt/IMO 9212084) make there way to the start line ahead of a line of other entrants in the 2013 Anniversary Day Regatta tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8592

3539. GLADIATOR's "Dick Dead-eye", the man who last year terrorised the passengers aboard the steam tug William C. Daldy with his water/ice-filled balloons during the 2013 Auckland Anniversary Regatta tug...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8591

3540. GLADIATOR - displaying good water safety.... each and every person wearing lifejackets.... makes for the start line of the 2013 Anniversary Day tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8590

3541. STRATHALLAN, built by Doug Robb in 1956, motored north from the South Island port of Timaru especially for this event. She is seen here leading the operational tugs DALDY and WAKA KUME to the start...
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8589

3542. AKARANA (1960) a former Auckland Harbour Board pilot launch, now fully restored to her original condition, officially fired the starting gun for the 2013 Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta tug race.
Date: 28 January 2013
Image ID 8587

3543. AGLAIA (2011/42609grt/52788dwt/IMO 9400215, ex-UASC ZAMZAM) rounds North Head inbound to Auckland NZ from Brisbane, Australia for her maiden call. She is owned and managed by Peter Doehle Schiffahrts...
Date: 2 February 2013
Image ID 8586

3544. ZHE HAI 1 (2012/22295grt/30000dwt/IMO 9567489, launched as ZHE HAI 701) sailing from Auckland, New Zealand bound for Wellington following her maiden call. At left is the Swiss-registered yacht...
Date: 29 January 2013
Image ID 8584

3545. ZHE HAI 1 (2012/22295grt/30000dwt/IMO 9567489, launched as ZHE HAI 701) sailing from Auckland, New Zealand bound for Wellington following her maiden call.
Date: 29 January 2013
Image ID 8583

3546. HOEGH AMERICA (2003/57718grt/21182dwt/9277802, ex-HUAL AMERICA) departing Auckland, New Zealand.
Date: 29 January 2013
Image ID 8582

3547. HOEGH AMERICA (2003/57718grt/21182dwt/9277802, ex-HUAL AMERICA) departing Auckland, New Zealand.
Date: 29 January 2013
Image ID 8581

3548. MSC REGINA (1999/40631grt/56890dwt/IMO 9202651) off Mount Maunganui inbound to the Port of Tauranga, New Zealand.
Date: 25 January 2013
Image ID 8580

3549. ASTORIA BRIDGE (2009/40839grt/51314dwt/IMO 9409041) in the Yarra River inbound at Melbourne, Australia.
Date: 4 December 2012
Image ID 8579

3550. WAIPAPA (2000/338grt/IMO 9212072) - assisting SOUTHERN PEARL as she enters drydock at Babcock's shipyard, Devonport, Auckland.
Date: 21 January 2013
Image ID 8578

3551. SOUTHERN MOANA (2000/4447grt/5350dwt/IMO 9197026, ex-SOUTHERN QUEEN, COMORO RIVER, SOUTHERN AMELIA II, BELUGA ADVERTISING. Renamed MERATUS PROJECT 2, RED ROCK) departing Auckland, New Zealand. As of...
Date: 8 August 2007
Image ID 8577