Ocean Mail (Ship)

Date: 4 Apr 1877

By: Ocean Mail (Ship)

Reference: fMS-Papers-7950

Description: Photocopy of inquiry into the shipwreck of the `Ocean Mail', Chatham Islands, in 1877 with return of casualties Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (photocopy)

Date: ca 1909-1914

From: Dickie, John, 1869-1942 :Collection of postcards, prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0735

Description: Photographs of ships taken or collected by John Dickie including some duplicates. Quantity: 63 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: March 1887

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

By: Martin, Alfred, 1846?-1906

Reference: PA1-o-1333-24

Description: View of the wreck of the `Ocean Mail' on French Reef on the north coast of Chatham Island between Matarakau and Taupeka. Photographed by Alfred Martin in March 1887. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). `Ocean Mail' was wrecked on the 21st of March 1887 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: 1862-1877

Reference: qMS-0435

Description: Official correspondence relating to the survey of the islands; various original deeds and other legal papers; also newspaper account of the wreck of the `Ocean Mail', Mar 1877; NZ Gazette report on Chatham Islands, 14 Jan 1862 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (34 cm; ¼ maroon roan, grey boards)

Date: 1874, n d

By: Frood, James N, active 1874

Reference: MSX-4912

Description: Journal kept by Surgeon-Superintendent Frood on board the `Ocean Mail' from Gravesend to Blind Bay from 18 Aug to 7 Nov 1874 in which he describes the weather, basic medical cleaning, temperatures three times daily for three parts of the vessel, the single female quarters, the married couples' quarters and single men's quarters, notes of deaths and sickness, and particular events Also notes in another hand summarising known facts about the `Ocean mail' from 1873 to 1876 when she was wrecked Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and mss

Date: [ca 1877]

Reference: PAColl-2313

Description: Photograph of the wreck of the 'Ocean Mail', Chatham Islands, taken ca 1877 by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Wreck of the Ocean Mail Chatham Islands 4/- 207 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 16 x 20.8 cm

Date: [ca 1887]

From: Dickie, John, 1869-1942 :Collection of postcards, prints and negatives

By: Martin, Alfred, 1846?-1906

Reference: 1/2-015350-G

Description: Photograph taken by Alfred Martin. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative