Story: The voyage out
Most emigrants to New Zealand boarded at Greenock (near Glasgow), London or Plymouth. Embarking was often a confusing, stressful experience. This engraving shows emigrants bound for Canterbury in New Zealand, waiting on the docks at Gravesend, London, in September 1850. Some of the people are in lengthy queues, waiting to board the four ships visible in the background. Others amuse themselves with a game of ‘Ring-a-roses’.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PUBL-0033-1850-199 (Illustrated London News)
Wood engraving
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
