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Lieutenant Home Kidston and his toys Part 3
I left Sub Lt R. H. (Home) A. Kidston aboard H.M.S. Diomede at Suva in June 1934 with the newspapers trumpeting that he had entered the MacRobertson L...
Lieutenant Home Kidston and his toys PART 2
When he first arrived in Auckland on August 2, 1933 to join HMS Diomede the Auckland Star called Sub-Lieutenant Home (pronounced Hume by the way) Kids...
Lieutenant Kidston RN of HMS Diomede and his toys
Fresh from Eton and straight from the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, Lieutenant Home Reginald Arthur Kidston joined HMS Diomede on the New Zealand ...
Eary Kaipara; The boats of the Bennetts of Port Albert
Small boats, under sail and later power, featured heavily in the history of Albertland.
THE SANDERSON BROTHERS; Truant and the rise of Manola
The Sanderson brothers; Frank Sanderson was the victor of the match race on the Waitematā on December 9, 1882 for a cup between his three-tonner Truan...
The Sanderson Brothers; The loss of Truant, the Logan Alert
I left the Sanderson brothers in the winter of 1885. Frank put the half-decked centre-boarder Truant on the market. Fred had moved up to Totara North ...
The Sanderson Brothers; Yachting in St. George’s Bay in the 1880s
Two brothers, Frank (Francis Joseph) and Fred (Frederick William) Sanderson, played a big part in yachting in St. George’s Bay and Judges’ Bay during ...
Tenetahi; Part 1 – The wreck of Rangatira
In the second half of the 19th century a large part of New Zealand’s coastal trade was in Maori-owned vessels.
Early West Coast Yachting: Alert
By the early years of the 20th century the coal ports, Westport and Greymouth, had developed an active yachting scene which grew out of Gold Rush rowi...
L. Francis Herreshoff’s Rozinante
The family name Herreshoff was undoubtedly the most resonant internationally in the period 1870 to 1950 as yacht designers. The Scottish Fifes were cl...
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