Story: Transport – overview

HMS Driver

HMS Driver

The first steamships were fitted with sails which they used much of the time. The first such vessel to visit New Zealand was HMS Driver, in 1846. This 20th-century sketch of the ship is by Roy Cowan.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, James Cowan Collection (MS-Papers-0039)
Reference: MS-Papers-0039-16
Drawing by Roy Cowan

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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James Watson, 'Transport – overview - Steam transport', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/artwork/24982/hms-driver (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by James Watson, published 11 Mar 2010