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DVD THE GREAT LINERS - SHIPS TO NEW ZEALAND PART 1 By Snowbow Productions. DVD, 59 minutes running time.
In this story "Ships to New Zealand" , 95 percent of the film used has never been made available to the public before. Now at last you will be able to sit back and once again view those ports and estuaries just as they were in their heyday when they were full of glorious ships.
There are so many ships featured in this DVD it's impossible to list them here. But they include the ships operated by such famous companies as Blue Star, Shaw Savill, New Zealand and Federal Steam, Ellerman's, Port Line and many many more.
We watch them as they sail in and out of the ports of the world and sail with them on their exciting voyages, through tremendous storms and on to exotic sounding places that other people of the time could only but dream of ever seeing.
Everyone who had anything to do with ships has their own very special story to tell, for those days were for most of us 'the best days of our lives'.
NZ$60.00 + Delivery
DVD THE GREAT LINERS - SHIPS TO NEW ZEALAND PART 2 By Snowbow Productions. DVD, 65 minutes running time.
In the second part of this production we continue to follow many of the ships that once served the longest liner voyage on earth, sailing with their adventures as they transverse the oceans of the world on their outward voyages to New Zealand, some on the Easterly route via the stormy Bay of Biscay, Suez and Australia and others on the Westerly route, sailing through Atlantic storms to the Caribbean, Panama and then out into the Pacific Ocean calling at Tahiti, Pitcairn and the Fijian Islands, before finally arriving in New Zealand.
There are ships operated by the New Zealand Shipping Company, Federal Steam, Blue Star, Port Line, Shaw Savill and Ellerman's, all magnificent vessels we never thought we would ever see again. We'are both above and below decks and experience just what it was like to have sailed to New Zealand aboard these ships during the glorious years of shipping and the heyday of the British Merchant Navy.
Everyone involved with ships and the sea have their own very sepcial stories to tell, for they really were for so many of us, 'the best days of our lives'. So, pour a little drink, put this video on and just enjoy those wonderful days all over again and let the memories and stories come flooding back.
NZ$60.00 + Delivery
DVD THE GREAT LINERS - SHIPS TO NEW ZEALAND PART 3 By Snowbow Productions. DVD, 59 minutes running time.
This is the third part of our story "Ships to New Zealand". We once again return to the heyday of the British Merchant Navy and follow the adventures of many of the ships that were once so much an every day part of our lives and operated by such famous lines as Blue Star, Ellerman, New Zealand Shipping Company, Federal Steam, Port Line, Savill and many many more, as they sailed in and out of the scenic ports of Australia and New Zealand.
Using film recently shot especially for exclusive use in this production, we also see those same ports as they are today and draw a comparison with the way they once were. We visit places and bars once frequented by the men and women who once served aboard these beautiful old ships, places where so many romances, stories and adventures began.
As we watch the ships at work around the New Zealand coast, loading their cargoes of refridgerated meat, butter, cheese, bales of wool and drums of tallow, we join even more ships as they sail outward bound from the UK on that long voyage, calling at such places as Curacao, Panama and across the vast Pacific Ocean to the Southern Dominions and their final destination, New Zealand, The Land of the Long White Cloud.
After many weeks spent on the New Zealand coast, working, sightseeing, partying and often falling in love, it's finally time for the ships to sail for home again, amongst them some of the older ones sailing for the very last time, their paying-off pennants flying with nostalgic pride after giving so many years of loyal service.
Everyone who had anything to do with ships has their own very special story to tell, for those days were for most of us 'the best days of our lives'. Here is a story about the ships that once sailed to New Zealand. It's a story you will enjoy and one that will help to open the covers to your own very special book of memories.
This really is a truly remarkable DVD.
NZ$60.00 + Delivery
DVD THE GREAT LINERS - SHIPS TO NEW ZEALAND PART 4 By Snowbow Productions. DVD, 63 minutes running time.
No one ever thought they would ever be able to see these wonderful maritime images ever again, but in this fourth part of our story, we continue to do exactly that, looking at the ships both in port and at sea.
We continue to follow the ships and their crews as they sail in and out of such scenic ports as Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Lyttleton, Nelson, New Plymouth, Napier, Timaru, Wellington and Auckland. Many of the ships featured in this magnificent DVD were operated by Shipping Companies that were once household names, such as Blue Star, Ellerman, New Zealand Shipping Company, Federal Steam, Port Line, Shaw Saville.
Using film recently shot especially for exclusive use in this production, we also see those same ports as they are today and draw a comparison with the way they once were. We visit places and bars once frequented by the men and women who once served aboard these beautiful old ships, places where so many romances, stories and adventures began.
We watch the ships at work around the New Zealand coast: discharging their cargoes of mostly UK manufactured goods and then loading of refridgerated meat, butter, cheese, bales of wool and drums of tallow, ready to start their long voyages home.
After many weeks spent on the New Zealand coast, working, sightseeing, partying and often falling in love, we watch the ships as they sail from the ports of New Zealand and Australia. For many of these great ships the time has sadly come for them to sail from these shores for the very last time and we watch the emotional scenes as they gracefully leave the quayside, their paying-off pennants flying with nostalgic pride after giving so many years of loyal service.
NZ$60.00 + Delivery
DVD THE GREAT LINERS - SHIPS TO NEW ZEALAND PART 5 By Snowbow Productions. DVD, 59 minutes running time.
Perhaps we shouldn't have placed this production under the banner of 'Ships to New Zealand', because in truth, very few ships went on straight-line voyages to New Zealand and back. Most ships featured in this production either called at ports in the Mediterranean, Suez, Aden, South Africa, the Far East and Australia before finally reaching New Zealand, or they sailed there via the Caribbean, America, Panama and various South Sea Islands, so we're really talking about most of the Shipping Companies in the world.
In this episode called "Homeward Bound", we watch the ships as they sail in and out of ports collecting their cargoes before finally sailing for home. All the film used in the making of this programme is extremely rare and never been made public before, but film of those old ships sailing for the very last time is not only extremely moving to watch but is something we never dreamt we would ever be able to see again.
In this episode we take a final look at ports crammed full of ships operated by Companies that were once household names, such as Blue Star, Ellerman's, New Zealand Shipping Company, Federal Steam, Port Line, P&O, Nederland Line, Shaw Saville and many more.
We watch the ships sailing for home and then actually join them on their long voyages, almost as if we are there for real. We show life aboard ships both above and below deck, including some amazing engine room footage, the likes of which we never thought we would ever be able to see.
For ship lovers and enthusiasts everywhere, this really is an amazing production.
NZ$60.00 + Delivery
A TASMAN TRIO. By Andrew Bell and Murray Robinson. Hardcover, 215mm x 304mm, 104 pages, monochrome photos.
A Tasman Trio: Wanganella - Awatea - Monowai brings to lovers of good books the fascinating lives of the three best-remembered passenger liners that linked Australia and New Zealand in the golden era of sea travel, before the modern airline industry came on the scene. Sunlit promenade decks, cocktails in the First Class lounge, invitations to the captain's table, tennis on the sports deck, dining saloons with the finest haute cuisine, cruising the Fiordland sounds, streamers and "All Ashore!" on sailing day. The story of these three ships through the exigencies of war and the uncerainties of peace is told in a wealth of photos many of which have never been published before, all of them sourced from major collections in New Zealand and from around the world, including the publisher's own extensive archives.
This book includes 189 black and white photos plus two maps, deck plans of each ship and paintings in colour.
NZ$60.00 + Delivery
NEW ZEALAND MARITIME MEMORIES DVD.By Transpress NZ. DVD, total running time 100 minutes.
In a country surrounded and dominated by the sea, shipping has long been a fundamentally important from of transport in New Zealand. This DVD documents various types of ships that have voyaged around New Zealand and the traffic they have handled.
Includes two bonus features on lighthouses of New Zealand.
NZ$20.00 + delivery.
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