OUT OF AUCKLAND
A SURVEY OF THE COMMERCIAL SAILING CRAFT BUILT IN THE AUCKLAND PROVINCE
AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE SAILING OUT OF AUCKLAND
WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR TRADE

AUTHOR - Clifford Hawkins

PUBLICATION - C.W. Hawkins Auckland 1960

CONDITION - Good condition, ex Ship and Marine Society Library with library pocket remains on back endpaper, and stamp on both endpapers, the title page, and a few randomly throughout. Inside is clean and bright with minimal discolouration and little or no foxing. Dustwrapper is on thin paper, browned, heavily chipped and torn, but carefully repaired. Signed by author.

PRICE - $32

DESCRIPTION - In compiling this book Clifford Hawkins put his accumulated personal knowledge, plus the results of extensive research, to good use and good purpose. His associations were practical as well as knowledge-based, for he sailed on the scow Rangi and brigantine Aratapu, the former being the last commercial sailing vessel based in Auckland. However, his story begins with the small sailing craft built for the missions in the Bay of Islands in the early 1800s. Consequently, with coastal shipping the main means of communication and transport in early NZ, shipbuilding was quickly established, with many yards located in harbours and on rivers throughout the Auckland province, but mainly in Auckland and on the Kaipara Harbour where fine schooners for coastal, trans-Tasman and South Pacific service were built. The last of these ships took the water in the early years of the 1900s. The author has compiled an unembellished, but vivid and comprehensive account, complemented with an outstanding collection of illustrations, showing the ships and the men who built and sailed them in his expansive and interesting story of the golden age of the small sailing ships operating Out of Auckland.

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