As noted on this postcard, the Three Kings Islands of NZ were the scene of the disastrous wreck of the trans-Tasman liner Elingamite in 1902, for more details see our book on the Wanganella and the Australian trans-Tasman liners. It shows one of the Oceanic Steamship Company of San Francisco's trans-Pacific liners Sierra, Ventura or Sonoma built at Philadelphia in 1900: the latter two were modernised in 1912 with single funnels and all three were broken up in Japan in 1934 after spending most of their careers traversing between San Francisco, Honolulu, and Sydney - visits to Auckland were discontinued in 1907.
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