Search and rescue operations - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 10 December 1973

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1973/5393-F

Description: Rescue authorities at the handing over of the Wellington area's first airborne life raft suitable for dropping from light aircraft, at the Evans Bay Marina. They are from left: R A Mackay, operations controller of the Sea and Rescue Service. C K Watson, Chairman of Wellington Search and Rescue. Mr Barrell, chairman or the Wellington Marine Search and Rescue committee. Captain Henry. Inspector I Croxford of the New Zealand Police Search and Rescue operations. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 27 March 1976

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1976/1091-F

Description: Jeff Sayer of Masterton manouvers his Air Contracts 300 helicopter during a search and rescue excercise in the eastern Tararua Range. The purpose of this excercise is to pick up a mountaineering club member from a rock in the Waiohine River. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 27 March 1976. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 2008, 2016-2018, and date unknown

By: Wahine 50 Charitable Trust

Reference: ATL-Group-00368

Description: Collection comprises documentation relating to survivor stories and/or recollections of passengers, crew, rescuers, witnesses, and locals concerning the "Wahine" ferry sinking and storm on 10 April 1968, as told by those persons and/or their family members. The stories comprise predominantly a paper copy of a statement by the persons and/or their families, which was sent by email (as an attachment or within the body of the email), copied by the Wahine 50 Trust into a Microsoft Word document, and then printed out by the Trust. The original date of the email correspondence has been annotated in pencil on the statement by the Trust. Some stories have accompanying material; such as photographs, newspaper cuttings, photocopies, DVDs, or electronic files (text and audio). A few of the stories are in the form of booklets created by the story contributor. The titles of the descriptive records for individual stories are as transcribed from the item, or as supplied by the Library to indicate the person(s) featured in the story. Arrangement: The materials relating to each story were arranged by the Trust staff as a separate file within a larger folder on delivery to the Library. That arrangement has been preserved by the archivist. Consent forms for 17 of the stories arrrived with the 2023 donation, and have been kept together in a separate folder. The Wahine 50 Trust was established in 2016 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the ferry "Wahine" in Wellington Harbour on 10 April 2018. Activities included public events, (memorial services, exhibition, and displays), a documentary, and the creation of a website (www.wahine50.org.nz) and database which would hold the stories of every survivor, rescuer, and person who played a support role on the day of the disaster. To that end the Trust solicited and collected personal recollections of the disaster. Quantity: 59 folder(s). 2 optical disk(s) DVDs. 2 Electronic document(s). 14 digital sound recording(s). 2 digital photograph(s). Physical Description: Typescript sheets, photocopies, colour photographic prints, DVD disks, and booklets Processing information: The story files were extracted from the original folder by the archivist and rehoused for conservation reasons.

Date: 11 September 1965

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1965/3406-F

Description: Search and rescue team manouver an improvised streatcher carrying Bryan Carey down the Western Hutt River. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 11 September 1965. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 5 November 1973

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1973/4841-F

Description: Members of the Wellington, Hutt Valley, and Wairarapa tramping clubs carrying the body of Lawrence Drake (Bill) Bridge, across the Orongorongo River. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 5th of November 1973. L D Bridge was the `father' of modern search and rescue in new Zealand. He died while attending a weekend search and rescue exercise in the Orongorongo River valley. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 11 September 1965

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1965/3407-F

Description: Members of a search and rescue team lift Bryan Carey's stretcher over a fallen tree by the side of the Western Hutt River. Photographed 11 September 1965 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 25 Aug 1913

From: Wilkinson, James Douglas :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/4-011202-G

Description: Group with flotation vests (rescue party?) on the beach while the ship 'Devon' is aground at Pencarrow Head, Lower Hutt, Wellington region, 25 August 1913. Photograph taken by James Douglas Wilkinson. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Group identified as a possible rescue party from information at 1/4-011197. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 30 Jul 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/2507-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/2080-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 20 Jun 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/2072-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 20 June 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/2071-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 20 Jun 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/2076-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 20 Jun 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/2075-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: Aug 1913

From: Wilkinson, James Douglas :Shipping negatives

By: Dickie, John, 1869-1942

Reference: 1/4-011197-G

Description: Rescue party at work on the beach while the ship 'Devon' is aground at Pencarrow Head, Lower Hutt, Wellington region, August 1913. Photograph taken by John Dickie. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 20 Jun 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/2074-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 20 Jun 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/2073-F

Description: Inside search headquarters in an uncompleted house, Sergeant B. F. Hunter (left), Constable H. J. Hall and local volunteers discuss their next move in the search for Keith Neal. Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches