In December 1809 the sailing ship Boyd was anchored in WhangaroaHarbour. It was attacked by a group of Maori who killed most of its crew and passengers in retaliation for the captain's mistreatment of a young local chief.
This imaginative reconstruction of the capture of the ship Boyd in Whangaroa Harbour was painted some 30 years after the event by the French artist Louis Auguste Sainson.
