Immigrant
Ships to New Zealand
From the
United Kingdom & Ireland
1835 to 1910
I do not consider the index to be definitive, but it does list approximately 3900 ship visits to the ports of New Zealand. Be aware though, that some of these ships did not carry passengers. This index gives the name of the ship, the port it left from, the date it left, the port it arrived at, the date it arrived, the Captain of the ship, how long the voyage took (where known) and sometimes some notes and a URL to a passenger list or other pertinent information.
The ports visited are set out below in alphabetical order, with the ships to each port in chronological order of arrival.
AUCKLAND BAY OF ISLANDS BLUFF LYTTELTON NAPIER NELSON NEW PLYMOUTH PICTON PORT CHALMERS TAURANGA TIMARU WANGANUI WELLINGTON
Here is a link to an image which shows the approximate route the immigrant vessels took to and from New Zealand.
There is also a page on Wikipedia on the clipper routes between the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
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PLEASE NOTE!! I
DO NOT have any information on passengers who came to New Zealand in
these ships or any other ships, or any further information beyond what
is contained in this database. Please consult the various links and suggested resources which I have included below. Thankyou.
Miscellaneous :-
I have included some ships here that I have not been able to find a port of entry for:-
1. 'CORINTHIC' - arrived from London on 27 July 1905, with Captain H F David in command.
See web site for a passenger list.
Ports which have been Re-named :-
Ahuriri in New Zealand, is now known as the Port of Napier.
Christiania in Norway, is now known as Oslo.
Invercargill - NZ - ships use to call at New River.
Lambton Harbour, Wellington NZ, is now Port Nicholson, Wellington, NZ.
Queenstown in County Cork, Ireland is now known as Cobh.
Victoria Harbour or Port Cooper in New Zealand, is now known as Lyttelton Harbour.
Shipping and Passenger
To and from New Zealand
Genealogy Web Directory - A large Directory of Genealogy resources and services.
New Zealand Bound - a must see by Olwyn Whitehouse
Outward-bound passengers from the UK. Records of 30 million passengers on thousands of ships sailing to destinations world wide, between 1890 and 1960, launching 2007. This is being done in association with 'The National Archives" of the United Kingdom.
Passenger Arrivals at Port Chalmers 1848 to 1851
Ships of the New Zealand Shipping Company
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
The Compass - at Rootsweb
Genseek List of Ships - World Wide References - compiled by Jenny Fawcett
Ship Passenger Lists - Index of Indexes - Hugh Reekie
Ships Logs, Journals, Pictures and Passenger Lists to Australia and New Zealand - complied by Lenore Frost
New Plymouth Settlement - an index to passengers that arrived between 1841 and 1843 plus some others up to 1860.
Australian and New Zealand Passenger Lists
Ships and Passenger Lists - Links to Ships, Passenger Lists and Immigration/Emigration.
Our Stuff - More than 1000 Passenger Lists compiled by Denise and Peter
"Port and People, Centenary at the Port of Napier" . An index prepared by Mike Foster of Wellington.
"ShipSearch" - a 'surname' search of passenger lists on the Internet.
Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters - this web site also includes a large number of passenger lists of ships which sailed from Australian ports.
The First Immigrant Ships - Port Nicholson, the Waitemata and beyond. An excellent account of the early migration to New Zealand.
References:-
I wish to acknowledge the following sources from which details were obtained:
1. "White
Wings", Vol. 1 & 2, by Sir Henry Brett. The Brett Printing Co.
Auckland, 1924 and 1928. See more details
about the author and his books. There is also an on line index extracted by the New Zealand Society of
Genealogists Computing Group in 1988. It lists the ships mentioned in the two volumes.
2. "Australasian Passenger Lists ", web site by Graham Jaunay.
3. " Shaw Savill & Co. Fleet List " web site.
4. "Settlement By Sail" - 19th Century Immigration to New Zealand. Text and original paintings by Gainor W
Jackson.
5. "Shipping to New Zealand" - 1839 to 1889. This is
a card index compiled by the Rev. William Charles Comber. The original
card index is held at the Museum of Wellington City & Sea. See sample of cards on microfiche.
These pages may be freely linked to but not copied in any way without my written consent.
Return to "Ships to NZ " Updated:- 13 August 2007
