"Te Toa", the cream launch, on the Manukau in 1924 36-P42, Eric D Pritchard photographer	"Rimu" passing Hillsborough - and seemingly sailing uphill while doing so! 36-P43, Eric D. Pritchard photographer
Northern Steamship Company duo "Rarawa" and "Rimu" passing Niger Bay near White Bluff after leaving Onehunga in 1924 36-P44, Eric D. Pritchard photographer	"Kia Ora" at Onehunga in July 1905. She was wrecked on a reef near Tirua Point in 1907, with Captain J.C. Blacklock among the victims. He was Master of "Rarawa" on her delivery voyage from Dundee to New Zealand in 1903. NZG-19070622-2-4, Talma Studios Photographers, NZ Gazette
The scow "Hawk" passing South Head en route to the Manukau Bar in October 1908, heading to North Auckland ports to load timber AWNS-19081015-12-3, A.E. MacIndoe, photographer	"Triton", a Norwegian barque which was the largest sailing vessel to navigate the Manukau Harbour, on approach to Onehunga in October 1908 AWNS-19081015-10-6, A.E. MacIndoe photographer
"Rarawa" is full steam ahead (and behind!), bound for New Plymouth in August 1910 AWNS-19100804-14-5, J.S. Orchard photographer	High and dry, thanks to Mother Nature! "Waitangi" blown ashore at Onehunga in the heavy gales which prevailed on 28 August 1910. AWNS-19100901-4-6, A.N. Breckon photographer
The Government steamer "Tutanekei" arriving off Onehunga JTD-19M-01197-1	"Ngapuhi" inbound from New Plymouth off Titirangi in 1929 FMO-0164-P, Frank Morris Collection
1370-509-07, NZ Herald Glass Plate Collection, Auckland Libraries	The Manukau Harbour had a surprise visitor in early 1941 when the "Imperial Star" made her way through the Heads and got as far as Point Puponga before the Captain realised there was no short-cut through to the Waitemata Harbour! The ship was built by Belfast shipbuilding giants Harland & Wolff in 1935, and was the first of a new class of refrigerated cargo motor ships designed to carry frozen meat on Blue Star Line's regular route from Australia and New Zealand to the UK. In August that year, "Imperial Star" was commissioned for service in the Merchant Navy, and took part in Operation Halberd, one of several high-risk convoys to relieve the siege of Malta in World War Two. During those convoys, she sustained damage from the Luftwaffe, and after losing the tow from an assisting destroyer was scuttled off Tunis in the Mediterranean Sea. She is pictured left off Point Puponga, about to embark on the rest of her voyage from Australia to Auckland.
The steamship "Weka" making her way down the Waiuku River en route to Onehunga, on her regular run carrying passengers and cargo Footprints 04619, Waiuku Museum Society photograph	The imposing sight of UNZ4, the 1800 ton Unit Shipping barge, berthed in the fishing basin in 1971 JTD-19M-04459-1, J.T. Diamond photography
1570-76	JTD-19M-01146, J.T. Diamond photographer
1570-97	Three 1960s shots of "Tawanui" sailing from Onehunga
"Jane Gifford" under full sail on the Manukau in 1991 Footprints 03064, John Mackie photographer, courtesy Bill Deed	Korean fishing vessel "Shin Ji" at Onehunga in December 2009 1477-1293, Brian Cairns photographer