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Story: The voyage out

Wharfside

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Wharfside

By the 1870s, immigrants stepped ashore on the substantial wharves of well-developed ports. The Lady Jocelyn, seen here berthed at a wharf, made several voyages between Britain and New Zealand.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, D. A. De Maus Collection (PAColl-3035)

Reference: 1/1-2195-G

by David Alexander De Maus

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John Wilson, The voyage out – Journeys to New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2553/wharfside (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 4 March 2009.