Publications
Lynton Diggle
A companion to New Zealand Shipwrecks 8th Edition [find out more about the book]
David Langdon
This book fills an important gap in NZ's maritime history [find out more about the book]
Rae McGregor
Sailing to Success - The Union Company Cadet Scheme [find out more about the book]
Victor Young
Written by Society member and due for release in December 2009.
The full story of all the ferries that have crossed Cook Strait. [find out more about the book]
Martin Berthold
This special anniversary edition commemorates the Society's sixty years of existence. [find out more about the book]
Peter Plowman
This books lists all the ships which carried immigrants to Australia and New Zealand between 1900 and 1939. [find out more about the book]
Andrew Ball & Murray Robinson
Recalling the grand days of ocean liner and flying boat travel between Australia and New Zealand in the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's. [find out more about the book]
W A Laxon
A Famous Australasian Shipping Company [find out more about the book]
Gavin McLean
The story of Oamaru Harbour [find out more about the book]
Captain Barry Thompson
The Customs and language of the British Merchant Seaman 1875 -1975. [find out more about the book]
Andrew Wiltshire
This book is especially good. Mostly bridge amidship tankers from all companies including BP and Shell. [find out more about the book]
Nick Tolerton
A new hardback book by Society member marking 125 years of refrigerated shipping. [find out more about the book]
Gerry Wright
Latest book by Gerry Wright about the RNZN ships involved in nuclear testing protests. [find out more about the book]
Robert Tompkins
A listing of non sail-powered Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Island merchant ships. [find out more about the book]
A D Munro
The history of HMS Wellington. [find out more about the book]
Ingram & Wheatley
The 8th edition of the most definitive book on New Zealand shipwrecks. [find out more about the book]
Gavin McLean
This lively book explores some of New Zealand's most interesting wrecks. [find out more about the book]
Emmanuel Makarios
Containing over 300 colour images of the NZ maritime scene in the years between 1950s and 1970s. [find out more about the book]
Nick Tolerton
A new book by member Nick Tolerton about the 100 year old Lyttelton tug. [find out more about the book]
Gerry Wright
This just released book tells the story of the RNZN involvement with the testing of British H Bombs. [find out more about the book]
Peter F Laister
Thuis is a unique history of a subject that has probably not been covered before. [find out more about the book]
Neil Pollard
This book traces the history of the STRAITSMAN from planning stages for the King Island service through to her new life in Fiji. [find out more about the book]
Bruce Attwell
Wharves of Wanganui - How Maritime Commerce Built a City [find out more about the book]
Ian Farquhar
A History of Port Line and its associated companies [find out more about the book]
Warwick Thomson
The true story of a young New Zealander's first trip to sea on Shaw Savill's ss "WAIMANA" in 1950. [find out more about the book]
Dave Share
Funny, frank, colourful and irreverent – this seadog’s memoir is a unique record from the golden era of shipping in the 1950s and ’60s to the present day. [find out more about the book]
Neill Atkinson
The personal reminiscene of 15 New Zealand Merchant Seamen during World War 2. [find out more about the book]
Keith Gordon
A new exciting book about the ss NIAGARA which was sunk by a German mine of the coast of New Zealand in 1940.
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Nick Tolerton
A history of bulk carriers. [find out more about the book]
Gavin McLean
The Canterbury Steam Shipping Company story. [find out more about the book]
Ian Farquhar
The story of the Shipping Corporation of New Zealand [find out more about the book]
Ken Cassells
This book descibes the wartime contruction of a fleet of Fairmiles in New Zealand for the Royal New Zealand Navy, their war service and what later became of them.
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Gavin McLean
The Rise of a Shipping Empire [find out more about the book]
Ian Farquhar
The History of a Famous New Zealand Company [find out more about the book]
Carol Dawber
A history of greenshell mussel farming in New Zealand [find out more about the book]
Martin Speyer
The History of the New Guinea Australia Line [find out more about the book]
Vincent H K Foo & Chai Foh Chin
The history of the Sarawak Steamship Company [find out more about the book]
W A Laxon
Fleet List [find out more about the book]
Gavin McLean
The Tasman Express Line Story [find out more about the book]
Bruce F Collins
The Wreck of the Manuka at the Catlans, [find out more about the book]
Peter Cooke
The Story of the Shell Petroleum Company in New Zealand [find out more about the book]
H J Hansen
The shipping history of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company [find out more about the book]
Colin Amodeo
History of a Lyttelton Engineering Company [find out more about the book]