Turakina (Ship : 1902-1917)

Date: 1872-1971

By: Brittenden family

Reference: MS-Papers-2055

Description: Letters and transcripts, press cuttings and other papers of three brothers who emigrated to New Zealand and Australia, 1877-1889, with their families, from Deal, Kent, England. They were members of a large party of watermen brought out to New Zealand as a group, generally referred to as the Deal Boatmen. Letters from Edward, who arrived on the "Star of India", 1874, comment on social conditions, and life on South Island railways, 1877-1912 (with diary of voyage from Lyttelton to UK on the SS `Turakina', Jul-Aug 1906); also his wife's and family's letters 1914-1958. Letters from James, comment on Dunedin, 1889-1892, giving first impressions, prices, trade union matters and working conditions. Letters from Frederick describing voyage to Lyttelton on the `Olive' in 1878, first impressions of Canterbury (later of Melbourne). Also letters of family members in South African War, World Wars I and II, and later papers; with notes, photographs and genealogical information. Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Canterbury Museum, Archives Department, holds the original shipboard diary kept by Fred Brittenden and transcript of letter written by Fred, September 1878 Quantity: 2 folder(s) (50 pieces). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs (photocopies) Provenance: See collection file

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: 1905 - 1907

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-D-COSTUME-1905-04

Description: Arrangement of text in three columns, with four illustrations: two of women wearing hats, and two of floor-length skirts. One hat is described as a beaver hat, and the other is illustrative of "ladies' motor caps and fleecy tam o'shanters". A circular panel in the centre announces the arrival of brown dress material, millinery ribbons, nets and motor veils, all having arrived on the ship "Turakina". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet, 570 x 447 mm.

Date: 1917-1918

By: Garner, Kirsty, active 2020

Reference: ATL-Group-00500

Description: Collection comprises 12 wartime letters from Sergeant Walter McIntyre from the period of his military deployment in Europe addressed to members of his family in New Zealand. The letters provide details of the voyage on the 'Turakina' from Wellington to Plymouth, England, and descriptions from the Western Front in France, with accounts of fighting in the trenches. In one letter McIntyre advises his brother not to enlist in the army due to the conditions of war. Also includes details of a furlough in England and France and meetings with women. The final letter to his mother was written shortly before his death. Title supplied by Library. Walter McIntyre died in the Battle of Le Quesnoy, seven days before the end of the war. Quantity: 3 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph letters. Provenance: Donor is the niece of Walter McIntyre. Processing information: Originally received in clearfile folders and plastic sleeves - the letters were rehoused in acid-free paper and folders by the Library.

Date: 1955-1961

Reference: MS-1940

Description: The volume comprises Elizabeth Colenso (née Fairburn), a biography by her eldest granddaughter, Frances Edith Swabey which covers the years 1819-1904 (45 & 49 pages); an Account of a visit by the Turakina to the Crozet Islands, Feb 1907, by F M Simcox (6 pages); an account of the golden wedding of W H & F M Simcox, 1920, from the Otaki Mail, (3 pages); a dedication of the Simcox Memorial Window in All Saints Church, Otaki, 1930, from the Otaki Mail (3 pages); an incident in W M Simcox's life and poem entitled `Kapiti Island' (3 pages) and a reference to Stratford House at Camp Hill, Birmingham, England. There are two indexes, one for pages 1-45, the other for pages 108-122. F S Simcox compiled this volume in stages, beginning in 1955 when his eldest sister, Edith Swabey, asked him to type Elizabeth Colenso's biography; as time passed additional projects presented which now form part of the volume: accounts of a visit to the Crozet Islands by F M Simcox, of the golden wedding of W H and F M Simcox, a dedication of a stained glass window, an incident in W M Simcox's life and information about Stratford House, Birmingham, a history of which had been written by J W Simcox. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (134 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (red linen) Finding Aids: Indexed (Biography of Elizabeth Colenso, 1819-1875 on pp 45-49; 1876-1904 on pp 50-56). Photographs of Rev B Y Ashwell's cottage at Pepepe; William Thomas Fairburn; family of W T Fairburn, 1891; William and Elizabeth Colenso; Ridley Latimer Colenso, 1880; F M Simcox, 1877; F M Colenso, 1865?, ms map of Norfolk Island and Crozet Islands

Date: [1900s-1910s]

From: Hall, George Patterson, 1875-1958: Photographs of Campbell Island, early whaling, and others

Reference: PA1-o-1639

Description: Photographs of maritime life, including wreck of ship Knight of the Garter, whaling from the Whangamumu whaling station, and coastal shipping, compiled by Captain G P Hall ca 1900s-1910s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 235 x 300 mm

Date: 1960 - 1970

From: Various artists :Reproductions of ship portraits by W W Stewart and J E Hobbs. 1960s-1970s]

Reference: A-467-011

Description: Shows the ship 'Turakina' in open water. Smoke is coming from the chimney Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, block-mounted, 255 x 362 mm

Date: 4 July-24 Sep 1912

By: Smith, Janet, active 1912

Reference: MS-Papers-4694

Description: The diary describes the voyage to New Zealand and briefly records her first impressions of New Zealand. Janet Smith sailed from London on 11 July 1912 aboard the New Zealand Shipping Company steamer `Turakina' to New Zealand via Cape Town.. She landed at Wellington on 24 August and after a brief stay with relatives near Lower Hutt she travelled by train to Auckland. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (38 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1872-1921

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2316

Description: Comprise further selections from the Press family papers, and from the papers of the Pillow family, the Grout and Company records, the Lothian of Blickling Collection, the Sir Henry Rider Haggard papers, the Chandler collection and the E A Field travel diaries. In the Field travel diaries one voyage is listed in the inventory as being from 13-31 Jan 1899, on the Waikaro, from Port Lyttelton, via Dunedin, Preservation Inlet, Milford Sound and back to Port Lyttelton. There is a ship called the SS Waikare, which made an annual tour Round the Sounds, of the West Coast Sounds. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 11 March 1912

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-020022

Description: Queens Wharf, Wellington, taken 11 March 1912 by Sydney Charles Smith. Shows shipping and Harbour Board sheds. Ships include the Countess of Errol, Opawa, Oreti, Mana, Kahu, Devonport, Wakatu, Mokoia, Maori, Turakina, and Pateena. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Negative

Date: ca 12 Mar 1909

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

Reference: 1/1-002454-G

Description: The ship Turakina, photographed by David Aldersley circa 12 March, 1909, probably in Wellington Harbour. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R M S T V Turakina Protected 12.3.09 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [between 1902 and 1917]

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

Reference: 1/1-002456-G

Description: The ship 'Turakina' in Wellington Harbour. Photograph taken between 1902 and 1917, possibly by John Dickie. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: between 1904 and 1917

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/1-002453-G

Description: The S S 'Turakina', leaving Nelson, photographed between 1904 and 1917 by F N Jones. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - S S Turakina leaving Nelson. NZ F N Jones Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-005013-G

Description: Copy negative taken by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch. Photographer of original unknown. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: August 1916 - September 1917

By: Grey, Elsie Prudentia, 1887-1949; Simmons, Monica Rose, active 2022; New Zealand Stationary Hospital (Wisques, France)

Reference: MSX-10096

Description: Handwritten diary kept by New Zealand Army nurse Elise Grey between August 1916 to September 1917. The narrative details Grey traveling from to New Zealand to England via the Panama Canal onboard the ‘Rotorua’ and the activities that occurred en route, sightseeing and shopping in and around London whilst awaiting stationing in France, describing the working conditions at the Military Hospitals and the battlefields of France and then returning back to England. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Children’s writing added later by Marion and David Grey, Elsie's niece and nephew. Elsie Grey was the great aunt of the donor. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph in ink and pencil, in printed volume , 26.2cm x 20cm x 1.5cm Processing information: The diary received conservation treatment to replace the cover and binding, which had deteriorated beyond repair. The spine and other fragments have been stored inside the box.