[NEW ZEALAND] Maunganui Bluff to Manukau…

One of the most desirable Hydrographic charts of New Zealand. The chart of this new survey was first issued, 4th February, 1908 and here with small corrections to 1920. The chart extends from Maunanui Bluff and Tutukaka Harbour in the north and south to Manukau Harbour and Whangamata River (Otahu River).

HMS Penguin was an Osprey-class sloop, launched on 1876. She was operated by the Royal Navy from 1877 to 1881, then from 1886 to 1889. After being converted to a survey vessel, Penguin was recommissioned in 1890, and operated until 1908.

After entering service, Penguin was assigned to the Pacific Station until 1881, when she was paid off. Recommissioned in 1886 for the East Indies Station, she participated in the blockade of Zanzibar in 1888 before returning to England and being paid off in 1889. She underwent a refit as a survey vessel and commenced service on the Australia Station in 1890 and undertook survey work around the Western Pacific islands, New Zealand and the Great Barrier Reef. From 1896 to 1899 she was under the command of Captain Arthur Mostyn Field and her surveying work included deep borings on Funafuti atoll.