Buffalo sails into Warkworth Town Hall
Celebrating a permanent home for the painting of HMSS Buffalo. From left, Peter Henderson (Warkworth Town Hall Trust), Cimino Cole, Barry Ferguson (who contributed funding for the painting) and Alex Hayward.
A painting depicting the British navy store ship HMSS Buffalo arriving in the Mahurangi harbour found a permanent home at the Warkworth Town Hall last month.
HMSS Buffalo off Spar Station Cove depicts the arrival of the ship in 1834 to inspect facilities for producing spars for the Royal Navy.
Gordon Browne’s spar station can be seen in the background – the first European settlement in the Auckland region.
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