Purchased by the Royal New Zealand Navy in March 1948. Formerly the HMS Loch Achanalt of the Royal Navy.
HMNZS Pukaki (Ship : 1948-1965)
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New Zealand - Miscellaneous, mainly armed forces and search & rescue operations
Date: 1935, 1950-1951
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-222
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1935 and 1950-1951. Plane crash in Ruahine Ranges and loss of pilot Hamish Armstrong, 1935; K-Force troops and crew from troopship `Wahine' which ran aground on Masela Island reef in Arafurua Sea north of Darwin, Aug 1951; air search using RNZAF Dakota of No 41 Transport Squadron for cutter Argo which went missing during Wellington to Lyttelton centennial yacht race, Feb 1951; after-math of volcanic eruption at Mount Lamington, Papua New Guinea, Feb 1951. HMNZS Pukaki on return from active service in Korea, 1950 (photographs taken by McLachlan); RNZAF in Fiji and inspection by Air Vice-Marshal D V Carnegie, Chief of Air Staff, Jul 1951; military parade in grounds of Parliament, Wellington, undated; able seaman Ray W Golding serving in HMNZS Rotoiti, Jun 1951; Australian destroyer HMAS Anzac, Commander J Plunkett-Cole and crew, 1951 (and newspaper cutting)l; members of Britain's defence establishment at Western Union Air Examining Squadrons HQ (undated) Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
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West Coast scenes and activities
Date: [1880s-1960s]
From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn
Reference: PAColl-9543-30
Description: Collection comprises street scenes; shipping and shipwrecks at Greymouth and other places; HMNZS Pukaki; railway locomotives, railcars, bridges and accidents; visits of parliamentarians Peter Fraser and Sir Eruera Tirikatene, and Governor at Brunnerton coal mine; croquet; schoolboy rugby; fancy dress; opening of Catholic church building; waterfall; fires; floods; and state house. Photographs taken 1880s-1960s by James Ring and L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
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Royal New Zealand Navy :A century of New Zealand warships. [Poster. ca 1999].
Date: 1999 - 2000
By: New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Navy; McLeavey, Michael, active 1998
Reference: Eph-D-NAVY-1999-01
Description: Shows ship profile portraits of ten warships: HMS New Zealand (served 1912-1922); HMS Philomel (served 1914-1917); HMS Chatham (served 1921-1924); HMS Dunedin (served 1924-1937); HMNZS Achilles (served 1936-1946); HMNZS Bellona (served 1946-1956); HMNZS Pukaki (served 1948-1965); HMNZS Otago (served 1961-1982); HMNZS Waikato (served 1966-1988); HMNZS Te Mana (served 1999- ). Artwork by Michael J McLeavey. Also gives information about tonnage, displacement, and engines. Gives years of service in the New Zealand navy. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster (plus duplicate)). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, on poster 595 x 422 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Office of the Chief of Naval Staff in 2000.
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Friends and relations meeting the HMNZS Pukaki, returning from Korea
Date: 5 Dec 1950
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-148-032
Description: Friends and relations meeting the HMNZS Pukaki, returning from Korea. Taken by a photographer for the `New Zealand Free Lance', circa 1950-1953. Location unknown. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - McLachlan 5/12/50. Friends & relations come along to meet the returning ship. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.5 x 22.0 cm
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Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons for the "Dominion" concerning fish, fishing, Japa...
Date: 1973 - 1978
From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].
By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-
Reference: C-132-723/738
Description: Includes cartoons about Japanese ships cleaning out New Zealand fishing grounds, Japanese taking our squid, Russians and Japanese taking our oysters, space debris destroys fisherman's prize catch, size limit for whitebait nets, Maori on the Land March stopping for toheroa at Dargaville, HMNZS "Pukaki" tries using girls to lure Japanese fishermen into New Zealand waters, Russians want to supply ships for New Zealand fish research, development of a 200-mile Fisheries Management zone, Bluff oyster fleet quota dispute, Russians fishing in Cook Strait, New Zealand waterways threatened by a Japanese carp, return of confiscated Japanese trawler, Japanese proposals on shark, fish restaurant at Overseas terminal in Wellington Harbour. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Quantity: 16 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.