Passenger ships - New Zealand

Date: [ca 1900s, ca 1925-1942]

From: Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942 : Photographs, negatives and photo albums

Reference: PAColl-10392

Description: Three images taken by Leslie Hinge, taken probably ca 1900s and at some time between 1925 and Hinge's death in 1942. The prints were originally loose in two photo albums (see ref PA1-o-1911 and PA1-o-1912). The images show: - One of the `Twin' geysers at Wairakei Valley near Taupo. - Woman seated on the monument to commemorate the heroism of Arthur Ambury, with Mt Taranaki in the background. - Aerial view of the passenger ship Tamahine leaving Tory Channel for Cook Strait. Other - An image very similar to that found here of Mt Taranaki was published in `New Zealand Railways magazine' (1 June 1939, p 55), credited as a Railways publicity photograph. Leslie Hinge worked for the Railways Publicity Branch from 1929 onwards. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [between 1965 and 1975]

From: Oettli, Max Christian, 1947-: Photographs of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PAColl-10851-13

Description: Comprises individual and group photographs taken by Max Oettli during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s of individuals, couples and families traveling in and around the North Island. Title taken from item. Arrangement: Delivered in a folder titled “Travel”.   Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1912-1915 - 2016

By: Stokes, Prudence Mary, 1929-

Reference: ATL-Group-00200

Description: Collection comprises holograph correspondence from Amy Caroline Watling to her family in England. The letters begin as Mrs Watling, her husband and her two youngest children travelled out from England to New Zealand aboard the steam ship 'Remuera' (1912). The letters continue for a period after their arrival in New Zealand, detailing their initial travels within the country and their family life (1912-1913). The original letters continue until June 1913. There is also a partial typescript of these letters with a running commentary. The transcripts include other letters not in the manuscript collection and continue up until May 1915. There is also a biographical history of the Watling family, a family tree and two scanned photographs. Title supplied by Library Arrangement: The donor, Prudence Stokes, arranged the collection and provided further transcripts and an account of the Watling family before donating it to the Alexander Turnbull Library in 2017. May Caroline Watling and her family travelled from England to New Zealand on the SS Remuera in 1912 and lived with relatives at Te Ahu Ahu, Ōhaeawai and Auckland before returning to England in 1920. Prue Stokes collected and arranged the letters of her grandmother, provided a partial transcript and added a commentary, as well as a biographical history of the Watling family, a family tree and two scanned photographs. Quantity: 4 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscripts and typescripts

Date: [195-?]

From: Wellington Returned and Services' Association :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1329

Description: Photograph of the ship 'Dominion Monarch', Wellington Heads, taken ca 1950s by an unidentified photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 45.4 x 60.6 cm

Date: 28 September - 26 November 1958

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8775

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') voyage to New Zealand in 1958. He travelled on board the SS Strathmore, via the Suez Canal as far as Australia, after which he sailed to New Zealand leaving from Sydney on the Wanganella. This sheet of slides covers the trip from Colombo with views of Colombo streets, a stall selling cottons and silks, a Buddhist shrine, and priests at a Buddhist Temple. There are two views of the Cocos Keeling Islands before his arrival in Australia. Only one purchased slide of koala bears relates to Australia on this sheet, the rest having been transferred to another file by Mr Williams, for later use in lectures on Australia. Slides on this sheet are numbered 27-68 with gaps for those removed for lectures on Australia, and on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 27-45) showing arrival in and departure from Australia as part of a representative collection on Australia for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. Slides nos. 47, 59-50, 52, 54-56, 60, 64-67, and 69-70 were transferred for his lectures on New Zealand. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 16 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1942 - 1913 - 1943

Reference: Plans-2013-041-1/4

Description: Includes plans for: Fuel oil deep tanks (scales 1/4" and 1/2" = 1 ft); Additional refrigerating chamber in after tween decks (scale 1/4" = 1 ft); Alterations to storm valves and discharges in way of fuel oil deep tanks (scale 1/4" = 1 ft); and Bulkhead 115. Method of fitting boundary bars (not to scale), showing the shell and the tank top Plans executed by A M Taylor, Naval Architect, for the Union Steam Ship Co of NZ Ltd Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprints and one diazo plan, of varying sizes Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts; other transfers made to Published collections - From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-2177.

Date: 1974-1991

From: Zemanek, Norman Herbert Emanuel, 1909-2001 : Photographic prints

Reference: PAColl-10415-4

Description: Photographs of Wellington City and its environs, taken between 1974 and 1991 by Norm Zemanek. Subjects largely comprise notable buildings and landmarks, such as fountains. Transport also features with images of the old cable car, a Westpac rescue helicopter, and a number of ships included. Buildings shown are: the Bank of New Zealand under construction, the Beehive, the Federated Farmers building, the General Assembly Library, the House of Ladies (corner Boulcott and Willis Streets), the Kiwi Rock Cafe with the rear of a car protruding from its facade, the Majestic Towers, the Maritime Museum, the Michael Fowler Centre, the National Library of New Zealand, Old St Paul's, the Point Halswell Beacon (Lighthouse), the Public Trust Office, supports under the Shamrock Hotel during its shift, St Mary's (St Mary of the Angels), the State Insurance Office. Also included are views of wharf cranes showing parts of the city and Oriental Bay in the background; the amkons (large concrete blocks) at the south end of Wellington Airport, and the casting bed for the Ngauranga Gorge motorway flyover bridge. Other images show Frank Kitts Park and the 'Albatross' Fountain (also at night), the Oriental Bay (Carter) fountain, the NZI fountain, the plaster statue of Kupe being moved from Wellington Railway Station, the driving wheel at Evans Bay near the Patent Slip site (now known as Cog Park), Super Loops at the Wellington Exhibition, and the Bucket Tree near Tawa. Ships included: Esmeralda, Chilean tall ship; the NZ frigates Canterbury, Wellington, Taranaki and Otago in Wellington Harbour; Crystal Harmony cruise ship; Queen Elizabth II; a Polish tall training ship. Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1936

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

Reference: Eph-E-AUGUST-2020/2

Description: Plan showing deck layout of Union Steam Ship Company vessel Awatea, with publicity photographs on verso, dated 8 December 1936. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing one item of printed ephemera. Physical Description: Offset print on paper, 755 x 940mm. Provenance: Plan belonged to donor's father.

Date: 22 June 1948

From: Minhinnick, Gordon, 1902-1992 :[111 original pencil and ink cartoons. 1930s-1980s]

Reference: C-171-013

Description: Depicts a group of wharfies surveying the ship Aorangi as it comes into port. There is a newspaper clipping in the top right corner, referring to the repainting of the ship white and gold and its return to work as a passenger ship after being requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport in 1941. The ship appears to be gleaming. The title suggests that the colour of the ship will prevent the wharfies from declaring the ship 'black' or non-union. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - "They done us, Boys - how are we going to declare 'er black?" [in pencil]; Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick [in ink]; Recto - beneath image - 22 Jun 1948 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen and pencil on paper with addition newspaper clipping, 365 x 530 mm

Date: [1970s?]

From: Karori Historical Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-12090-4

Description: Two exercise books containing research notes relating to 'Life on board the company's ships', including loose papers laid in, and a plan of the layout of the ship 'Bolton'. Mostly relates to migrant ships arriving in New Zealand in the 19th century. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Two excercise books of holograph manuscript, loose papers, and a diagram

Date: Jan-May 1892

By: Burnett, Henry Brown (Rev), 1836-1912

Reference: MS-Papers-3700

Description: Describes preparations for and voyage from New Zealand to England on the sailing ship `Euterpe' Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased 1967

Date: 1929-1981

By: Brewer, Neville Herbert, 1903-1999

Reference: MS-Group-1595

Description: Mainly research notes for, and various typescript drafts of, A Century of style : Great ships of the Union Line, 1875-1976 (Wellington : Reed, 1982). Also correspondence relating to the publication of the book and a small quantity of family correspondence, including several letters Brewer wrote from North Africa in 1941-1942 while serving with the 5th Field Regiment, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force Quantity: 21 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, 2007 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph album and loose photographs, mainly of Union Line ships (PA-Group-00137).

Date: 1927

Reference: Eph-C-SHIP-1927-01

Description: Single sheet poster announcing the ship names and approximate sailings dates of ships sailing from Southampton to New Zealand and then on to Tasmania and Australia. There are nine scheduled sailings between 8 April and 17 November of 1927. At top centre is a coloured photographic print of the single-funnelled RMS 'Rotorua'. Text in smaller print concerns facilities for third-class passengers, booking a passage, baggage allowances, embarkation information, and the importance of obeying regulations. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print and letterpress on sheet 508 x 317 mm.

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47490-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47486-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47488-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47487-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47489-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 2014

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0027570

Description: Cartoon shows staff on the deck of The Interislander ferry watching their customers setting off from the wharf to paddle across the Cook Strait instead of catching the dilapidated ferry boat. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47492-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate