Kōrero: Rowing

Rowing a lifeboat, 1881

Rowing a lifeboat, 1881

This engraving from the Illustrated New Zealand Herald shows four men rowing and one man steering a lifeboat. This followed the wreck of the Tararua on a reef at Waipapa Point, Southland, on the night of 29 April 1881. 131 people died in the wreck. Whether it was saving lives after a wreck or travelling across a lake, rowing was a much-used form of locomotion in colonial New Zealand.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PUBL-0047-1881-0002

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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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

David Green, 'Rowing - Overview and origins of rowing', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/artwork/41255/rowing-a-lifeboat-1881 (accessed 30 March 2024)

He kōrero nā David Green, i tāngia i te 5 Sep 2013, updated 19 Sep 2016