Shipbuilding

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029-a/040-a

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: 1923, 1978

By: Rae, Duncan McFayden, 1888-1964

Reference: MS-Papers-1848

Description: Twenty-three articles published in the `Western star' newspaper, Riverton, under pseudonym Aparima, based on recollections of G Howell of life and activities of Captain J Howell, founder of Riverton, discussing sealing, whaling, mining, economic and social development Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (128 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph transcript (photocopy)

Date: 1792 - 1939

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/10/5-Acc.37945

Description: Identifies: Enforced settlement (marooned sealers); Sealing station; Seasonal and permanent whaling stations; General farming settlement; General trade (flax, spars etc) and shipbuilding. Accompanying material: O L C (old land claim) 833.835 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey linen. Scale [ca. 1:1 584 000] 57 x 44 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1792 - 1839

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/10/4-Acc.37944

Description: Identifies: Enforced settlement (marooned sealers); Sealing station; Seasonal and permanent whaling stations; General farming settlement; General trade (flax, timber etc) and Ship building. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey linen. Scale [ca. 1:1 584 000] 58 x 45 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1831 - 1834

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/10/2-Acc.37942

Description: Identifies Whaling station, ship-building areas and trade Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on greaseproof paper bound with brown paper. Scale indeterminable. 41 x 40.5 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1960 - 1969

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: En-Zed Card & Calendar Company Ltd; Four Square Stores; New Zealand Antarctic Society; Tanner Couch Ltd; Commercial Print; New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society; Pelorus Press; Victorian Government Tourist Bureau; Tricker, Gary Walter Morice, 1938-2021

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-1960s

Description: Includes calendars: Commercial Print (Boulcott Avenue, Wellington). Calendar for 1964. En-Zed Card & Calendar Co Ltd (Auckland). [Calendar for 1965]. (2 copies) En-Zed Card & Calendar Co Ltd (Auckland). [Calendar for 1966]. (2 copies) Four Square. J D Turnbull, 1 Moxham Avenue, Hataitai. [Calendar for 1962]. Four Square. Beautiful New Zealand; the scenes from the 1964 Four Square calendar (folder of six loose colour photographs only) The Melanesian Mission. [Calendar] 1968. New Zealand Antarctic Society. Calendar 1962 New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Inc. Calendar 1961. (featuring a drawing by Gary Tricker) Shipbuilders Ltd. A family of shipbuilders; the Darrochs of Omaha and the ships they built, by C W Hawkins. Pelorus Press. [Calendar for 1966, relating to D M Darroch & Son of Stanley Bay]. Tanner Couch Ltd. Seasons greetings. [Humorous fishing calendar for 1961]. Victorian Government Tourist Bureau. Arts calendar 1969. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s) sets on calendars (plus some duplicates). Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes. Provenance: Donated from various sources.

Date: 1863

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888; Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909

Reference: A-160-004

Description: Shows the schooner Lotus under construction at Kaukapakapa, Northland. Based on a photograph by Daniel Manders Beere Other Titles - Kaukapakapa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 120 x 190 mm

Date: 1980

By: Williams, Charles Warren, 1895-1985

Reference: MS-Papers-2122

Description: Family reminiscences, chiefly of the unique whaling enterprise at Whangamumu, Northland, which started with open boats in 1890 by George, Francis and William Harvey Cook, and further developed in 1910-1911 Williams was a great-grandson of William Cook, who settled at Russell, 1823 and married a relative of Tamati Waka Nene. William Cook and two generations of descendants, who were involved mainly in shipbuilding and whaling. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (8 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, between 1860 and 1868]

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902

Reference: E-033-4-036

Description: Rough sketch looking south towards Akaroa Harbour entrance from the shore of Duvauchelle Bay. There are outlines of people on the foreshore, a house or two along the beach to the right and the hull of a partly-constructed boat further away. There is also a coastal profile along the top of the page, probably of the Canterbury alps from the sea. The phrase Gorge of Rakia above the coastal profile may be a mistake for Gorge of Rakaia Chevalier visited Akaroa in April 1866. However he also visited Dunedin in 1868 and may have added this sketch to Hodgkins sketchbook at the later date. See also C-178-005 for Chevalier's completed watercolour of this sketch, dated 1868; purchased by the Library August 2016. Other Titles - Duvauchelle Rakaia Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on dark green wove paper, 118 x 199 mm

Date: 14 Dec 1994

From: New Zealand fishing history oral history project

By: Saunders, Alfred Carr, 1911-2010

Reference: OHInt-0444-06

Description: Alfred Saunders born at Point Halswell, Wellington 1911. Recalls his father was an artilleryman in the army, stationed at the Point to look after the large gun there. Talks about growing up on the Miramar Peninsula, Fort Ballance and other forts around the harbour. Also talks about period when father left the army and they moved to Whangaroa where his father took up crayfishing. Recalls leaving school at the age of 15 years and commencing an apprenticeship as a shipwright with B J L Jukes Ltd, a boatbuilder in Balena Bay, Wellington. Describes his duties as an apprentice and explains that many of the boats worked on at the yard belonged to Island Bay and Eastbourne fishermen. Mentions living at Paraparaumu where he built a 40 foot fishing vessel called `May' for a Mr Buckland at Plimmerton during the Great Depression. Refers to his work during World War II, describing some of the vessels he worked on which were commandeered by the navy. After the war went fishing from Paremata and details type of fishing and fish caught. Describes location of his boat yard at Paremata foreshore where he built a number of fishing and pleasure craft. Talks about the Sea Reaper, a vessel of 50 feet in length that he built and operated with his sons during the 1960s. Talks about the crayfish boom at the Chathams and the big demand for vessels. Mentions some of the problems encountered with the Marine Department surveyors and the modern fishing regulations. Talks about son, Harold, who has a boatbuilding business in Tory Channel in the Marlborough Sounds. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Emmanuel Makarios Venue - 54 Paremata Road Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010226-010227 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3415.

Date: 20 Dec 1994

From: New Zealand fishing history oral history project

By: Imlach, James, 1914-1995; Saffioti, Paolo, 1918-

Reference: OHInt-0444-05

Description: James Imlach born in the North of Scotland and came from a family of fishermen for many generations. Recalls that his father, Jimmy Imlach senior, came to New Zealand with his family at the end of World War I, initially working on a cargo ship employed on the cheese run between Patea and Wellington before taking up fishing. Recalls that in 1930, at the age of 16, left school and joined father and Shetland Islander, Tommy Isbister, on the `Southern Cross' which father owned. Paolo Saffioti born in New Zealand. Recalls that father was from Italy and had jumped ship in Auckland, travelling to Wellington where he heard there was an Italian community. Father worked on a coastal cargo ship, the `Canopus' carrying coal, before taking up fishing on one of the Italian boats in Eastbourne, later shifting to Island Bay where he continued fishing, eventually buying his own boat, the `All Black'. Recalls that it was in this vessel that self started fishing career at the age of 14 years during the early 1930s. Jimmy and Paolo worked on the `Southern Cross' and were to work together most of their fishing careers and were neighbours in Island Bay. They recall the types of fishing they were involved in, such as groper and crayfishing, the areas where they fished, type of gear used and the early winches and some of the dangers and accidents using them. They talk about some of the early fish wholesalers and the difficulties in selling their catch, particularly during the Depression. They discuss the Wellington Fishermen's Co-op in which Paolo's father, Santo Saffioti, was a founding member. Talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the Co-op and its demise. Crayfishing from Island Bay during the early 1950s is also discussed. They recall boats that were built at Island Bay and their builders; making of wet weather gear and floats by the women of the fishing community and the slipway near the western entrance to Island Bay which was built and owned by a Mr Cunningham. Jimmy Imlach retired from fishing in 1965 though his sons are still involved in commercial fishing, owning a trawler, `The Rowallen' which works from Wellington. Paolo retired in 1983. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Emmanuel Makarios Venue - 200 The Esplanade, Island Bay, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010224-010225 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3414.

Date: 1849 - 1853

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Barker, F B, active 1850s

Reference: E-144-012

Description: A curved inlet, with a ship's hull, possibly under construction and several small houses by the shore. A small boat and islands in the background, along with a waka with two sails. Other Titles - Kikowhakarere Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing, original, 10.8 x 13.7 inches

Date: 1839

By: Dadd, - Henry, active 1839

Reference: MS-Papers-2922

Description: Made out between Henry Dadd, apprentice, and James Daniels, master, both of Kent Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter

Date: 1868

By: Green, Arthur George, active 1980-2004

Reference: PAColl-3778

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029/040

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: 1948

By: Moore, Sylvia May, active 1948

Reference: Micro-MS-0151

Description: History of the descendants of James Strange Mucklejohn and his wife Catherine Mustard of Scotland who married at Halifax, and later settled on Prince Edward Island, Canada. James worked as a shipbuilder at Charlottetown. Included are transcripts of the following ship's logs kept by Mucklejohn from his `Journal of voyages': Highland Lad, 1828; Rachel, 1829; Industry, 1831. In 1856 J S Mucklejohn built the `Union' and after travelling to various parts of the world with his family they eventually arrived in NZ and settled at Big Omaha where he set up as a shipbuilder together with his sons. The name appears to have changed on Meiklejohn on arrival in NZ. Includes an account of the life of Anna Maria Meiklejohn Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (69 pages).

Date: 1804

By: Dayes, Edward - 1763-1804; Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-038-005

Description: A view across Sydney Cove, with houses to the right and in the background across the water. A group of Aborigines is seated around a fire in the foreground. A partially constructed ship (Governor Hunter's brig Portland) is in the middle distance at the Government Dock Yard. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint 436 x 617 mm (trimmed to plate marks) Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull. Listed in his Acquisition book (MS-2169), item 748, purchased from F. Edwards, London, on 30 Novmber 1898 for £2 10 shillings

Date: 1826 - 1838

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/10/10-Acc.27950

Description: Pre 1840 European Settlement dated areas of sealing, whaling, general farming, general trade, flax etc and timber and shipbuilding. Note at top of map reads: Fletcher / Crawford Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream linen. Scale [ca 1:506 880] 88 x 64 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1986

By: Nobbs, Kenneth James, 1909-1996

Reference: MS-Papers-5665

Description: Comprises item which describes canoes, shipbuilding in Dusky Sound (1792-1795), earliest exports of timber, William Hall, the first resident shipbuilder (1814-1825), the `Herald', and Matauwhi; list of Nobbs's publications (incomplete) and background letter to collection Source of title - Transcribed Nobbs, a nurseryman, has published a large number of historical and horticultural papers Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, with illustrations reproduced Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr K J Nobbs, Te Kauwhata, Nov 1987

Date: 1934

By: Fielding, William, 1876-1946

Reference: A-215-003

Description: Shows boat harbour and ships in the slipway Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of ink drawing 190 x 373 mm