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)
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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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