Capt. Peter Stacey has for the last twenty years  been a pilot in Wellington, New Zealand.
 He did his pre-sea training in Hull, joining Blue Star Line in 1965 as a Deck Cadet. He stayed with Blue Star Line for the next 15 years (the last 5 years as Chief Officer) before coming ashore at the end of 1979. As a Cadet he started a collection of photographs of the fleet but  did not start collecting in earnest until he went  ashore.
In 1989 when the pilot service started  transferring  to the ships by helicopter,  it offered a different platform from which to take his photographs.
He is a member of the The New Zealand Ship & Marine Society and the Vestey Group Shipping Association.