Thornycroft Torpedo Boat Museum
Thornycroft Torpedo Boat Museum is a museum in Lyttelton, Banks Peninsula.
Checked 20 Oct 2026
Torpedo boat museum in Lyttelton run by the Lyttelton Information Centre, inside a Highly Significant listed magazine building: read from the public record
Sits inside Magazine and Setting, highly significant in the District Plan · Operated by Lyttelton Information Centre
Lyttelton
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Straight-line distances from the pin, not walking routes.
Nearby
More nearby places 6
Environment Canterbury’s Canterbury Maps Parks layer, refreshed 2026-10-10. Distances are straight-line from the business pin, not walking routes.
The nearest other museums
More nearby museums 5
Also in Lyttelton
More businesses in Lyttelton 7
What the record holds
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Museums | OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | 033289093 | Its own website |
| Website | lytteltoninfocentre.nz | OpenStreetMap · its own site agrees |
| Operator | Lyttelton Information Centre | OpenStreetMap |
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The ground it stands on
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| District Plan zone | Open Space Community Parks | District Plan |
| Heritage item | Magazine and Setting (Heritage NZ category 1), highly significant in the District Plan | District Plan |
Celebrating 100 Years of World Rotary 1905 - 2005 RotaryThe reports nearby
327 council reports pinned within 250 m of the premises, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 290 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
The 327 reports on file
Trees - General
Dumped Rubbish
Park - General Request
Park - General Request
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art
Accessibility
Park - General Request
Graffiti on a playground or in a park
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art
Animal - DomesticQuestions, answered briefly
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A museum in Lyttelton, Christchurch.
Somewhere in Lyttelton, the record holds no street address. On the map →
On OpenStreetMap.
phone 03 328 9093 (its own website), its website.
Te Ūaka The Lyttelton Museum (1.6 km), Ngaio Marsh House (7.5 km), Godley Head Heritage Trust Museum (8.5 km), every one in the city.
6 other premises within a short walk, nearest Naval Boat Point Ramp Freedom camp (233 m); the Park Tce near Cressy Tce bus stop is 237 m away: route 28; nearest park: Park Terrace Reserve (117 m).
The record behind this
This page is the union of what these public sources say, each fact above names the one it came from. A listing is a lead, not a promise the business still trades:
Sources: OpenStreetMap · Christchurch District Plan layers · Environment Canterbury’s Metro stop record · The business’s own website
Read source notes 4
- OpenStreetMap, named premises drawn and kept current by its contributors (ODbL)
- Christchurch District Plan layers, zones, commercial centres and scheduled heritage items, from the council’s open data (CC BY 4.0)
- Environment Canterbury’s Metro stop record, distances measured here from the pin
- The business’s own website, read politely by chch.live for contact details the open record is missing, re-checked monthly
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