Sailing ships - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: ca 1880s

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/2-003202-G

Description: View of old Port Chalmers, looking across the harbour towards the township, with ships in the harbour, and the Methodist chapel and the Anglican church visible on the hill, centre background; the Presbyterian church at far right centre. Photographed by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Port Chalmers. 31. Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1987-1995]

From: Deane, Roderick Sheldon (Dr), 1941- :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8966-1

Description: Portraits of Dr Roderick Deane. Photographs of the fairwell to Team New Zealand from Auckland when they left for the America's Cup challenge of 1995 in San Diego. This group includes photographs of Peter Blake, Dennis Connor, and artist Ralph Hotere. There are views of the crowd on the wharf where the yachts were tied, of accompanying craft on the harbour, and of a 15th century sailing ship. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s). 36 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1932]

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PA1-f-131

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm

Date: 1888

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-434-047

Description: Shows two sailing ships in the dock, with a railway line leading to each. Groups of people are standing around in the foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 129 x 235 mm, on cropped page Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, in 2010.

Date: [ca 1907]

By: McLeod, Bert, active 1907; Hefford, Barbara, active 1956-2009

Reference: PAColl-9639

Description: Photograph of sailing ships, Auckland Harbour, taken ca 1907 by Bert McLeod Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print Provenance: Donated by Barbara Hefford, Porirua, 2009. Donor is great-niece of the photographer, Bert McLeod.

Date: 1989

From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection

Reference: PA12-11158

Description: Contains colour transparencies of ocean and yachting scenes taken by James (Jim) Watt during his solo circumnavigation of New Zealand in his yacht 'Matariki' in 1989. Includes three images of the sailing ship 'Spirit of Adventure' in Auckland Harbour, the Southern Alps (particularly Aoraki/Mount Cook) seen from off the West Coast of the South Island, atmospheric conditions (sunsets/sunrise), and Milford Sound. Inscriptions: Note from depositor reads: "Jim Watt - sailing round NZ solo, 1987 - yacht 'Matariki'" Watt attempted to follow the path of Captain James Cook on this voyage. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 23 February 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2230-F

Description: Panoramic view of the arrival of H.M.S. Renown in Auckland Harbour, bringing the Duke and Duchess of York on a royal visit to New Zealand, probably taken from Devonport. Trees in the right foreground. H.M.S. Renown in the centre. Two large two-masted sailing ships, one on the right in front of an escort ship and one centre left. Other escort ships on the far left. Two steamships, a flotilla of yachts and small boats following. Auckland city in the background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-2222 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [Duplicate]; Marginal notes on negative - 11 11 11 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 122.3 cm

Date: 1876

From: [Walsh, Philip] 1843-1914 :[European, shipboard and New Zealand sketchbook] 1863-1876.

Reference: E-359-044

Description: A ship seen from the front, with its anchor visible. Two men in a rowboat are at the side of the ship Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 130 x 180 mm

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-022-1

Description: Shows a view looking across to Rangitoto Island, probably from the foreshore. North Head can be seen in the middle distance. In the foreground are tree ferns and other various bushes, and several boats and ships in the channel between the island and the mainland. The message included reads 'A merry Christmas' Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 105 x 145 mm

Date: 10 Feb 1933

By: Simcock, R (Mr), active 1976

Reference: PAColl-10209

Description: Photograph of the sailing ship 'Magdalene Vinnen' taken 10 February 1933 in the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland region, from HMS 'Diomede' the first German merchant ship to visit New Zealand after the 1914-1918 war. Photographer unidentified. Accompanying information - Copy print made in 1976 for Mr R Simcock, and a letter from the Library thanking Mr Simcock for the loan of his print, are filed in the Photographic Archive backfile under 'Simcock'. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on a copy print made by the Library and filed in Photographic Archive backfile under 'Simcock'. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print Provenance: The photograph had been donated anonymously to the Museum.

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: New Zealand Merchant Service Guild; Dickie, John, 1869-1942; Kinnear, James Hutchings, 1877-1946

Reference: PAColl-10020

Description: Photographic prints of sailing ships taken circa 1920s, chiefly taken by John Dickie, probably in the Wellington region. Images comprise four of 'Vercingetorix', one of the 'Alice A Leigh', and one of 'Falls of Garry', all taken by Dickie, probably in the Wellington region. Also one of 'Golden Gate' in Auckland taken by J H Kinnear. Source of Title - Supplied by Library Relationship complexity - Negatives of some of these items held in the Dickie collection at PAColl-3037. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s) (Postcards). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints (Postcards) Provenance: These items were formerly held by the Wellington Maritime Museum (later the Museum of City and Sea). The Museum decided to divest itself of some of its collected archives and, with the agreement of the Guild, the items were transferred to the Alexander Turnbull Library. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2067: New Zealand Merchant Service Guild Industrial Union of Workers: Records..

Date: 1886

By: Palmer, Charles, 1841?-1928

Reference: A-438-024

Description: Shows a view across St George's Bay to a wharf in the distance with the masts of numerous sailing ships moored thereto. At the land end of the wharf is a building with a smoking chimney, and there are houses to the shore side of that building. The artist's logo or symbol (a vase, a money bag or an inverted scallop shell with a blue shadow to its right) is at lower left. In 2010 the Library bought four works out of an offered group of 14 by this artist who uses a distinctive logo. Apart from the purchased four, the rest showed scenes of Kawau, native forest, a swamp at Waitoa (Waikato), an iron sand beach on the West Coast (North Island). Attribution: the Auckland artist Charles Palmer used a scallop shell as his logo, but in a different form from this one, shown upright, and with a staff behind it. It is possible that this group of watercolours is the work of Charles Palmer, but not certain Other Titles - 15 September 1886 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 137 x 220 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, July 2010.

Date: 1842 - 1843

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-216-f-015

Description: Shows a view looking across bracken, to the back of the first Government House (built 1842, burnt 1848), with the Waitemata and North Head in the background. There is a sailing ship in the right distance, and a waka with two triangular sails on the harbour. Two Maori sit in the bracken, and their is a goat grazing in the left foreground. In the right centre background is a raised storehouse (?), and there is a clump of flax in the right foreground. The hill above Devonport has a flagstaff. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, on paper, 85 x 153 mm. Provenance: Part of Mrs Hobson's album. The album was passed by Eliza Hobson to her daughter, Eliza, Lady Rendel.

Date: 1870s

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/2-003207-G

Description: Side view of Port Chalmers wharf and shipping in the 1870s, with a sailing ship flying bunting in the background berthed alongside the Shaw Savill & Albion Co. Export Stores, and a yacht and dinghies in the foreground. Photographed by David Alexander De Maus. Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [1935?]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-55934-G

Description: Aerial copy negative taken by Whites Aviation in 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Young, L R, fl 1972 :Photographs, including ones of Great Barrier Island and the timber industry

By: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948

Reference: PAColl-5521-08

Description: Sailing ship Rangi at Whangaparapara Harbour, Great Barrier Island, unloading logs for the Whangaparapara mill. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, circa 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 206 x 158 mm

Date: 1870s

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/2-003204-G

Description: Close-up view of sailing ships loading, probably at Bowen Pier, Port Chalmers wharf in the 1870s. Photographed by an unidentified photographer. Identification of wharf from photograph in "Otago seventieth anniversary. 1848-1918" (p 54), edited by Alex, Whyte. Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1870s

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/2-003203-G

Description: General view of wharves and shipping at Port Chalmers in the 1870s. Photographed by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Port Chalmers. Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1860

From: Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]

By: Hodgkinson & Company

Reference: A-457-008-2

Description: Shows a view of St George's Bay, with four sailing ships in the harbour, three of which are identified: the 'Evening Star', the 'HMS Tris'(?), and the 'HMS Elk'; with Major Murray's (65th Regiment) house also identified in the foreground on the right. A number of other houses are in view, with established trees and roadways. The coastline to North Head can be seen in the distance Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - St George's Bay - Parnell / Auckland / (Ship "Evening Star") / HMS Tris[?] 32 / HMS Elk 12 / Major Murray's house (65th Regt) [in pencil]; Verso - top right - 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 198 x 325 mm

Date: [1846-1850]

From: Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864: [Works on paper depicting scenes in New Zealand]

By: Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864

Reference: B-201-004

Description: A view of Rangitoto Island and North Head from the vantage point of John Blackett's home in St George's Bay, Parnell. Two figures are seen at right: a Pakeha man, standing, and a Māori, seated. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 185 x 220 mm