Shipwrecks - New Zealand - Subantarctic Islands

Date: 1870-1890

By: Macpherson, John, active 1865-1890

Reference: MS-Papers-3395

Description: Three letters about 1864-1865 wreckage in Auckland Islands : 1) Two letters (1889), in French, from the French publisher Hachette to John Macpherson, concerning F Edouard Raynal, author of `Les Naufrages; ou vingt mois sur un recif des Iles Auckland (1870); 2) Language - Two letters in French Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Processing information: Previously catalogued under Hachette Librairie et Cie, Paris

Date: [ca 1887-1891]

From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers

Reference: MSX-7938

Description: Notes on shipwrecks on and around the Sub-Antarctic islands, descriptions of the islands and their exploration, compiled preparatory to a trip by Chapman on the Government steamer, Hinemoana, in 1891 Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [1893-1967]

From: Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-6064-2

Description: Clippings and articles from newspapers and periodicals including Timor, Tahiti (publication of bibliography), Kupe, castaways on Disappointment Island, Nauru, Donald G Kennedy (administrator of Ellice Islands); letter, Andrew Sharp, re Polynesian voyages; `Exploring the ocean deeps', article by A W Baden Powell re research vessel `Galathea' to the Kermadec Deep (Newsview, Nov 1953); also on Campbell Island, yachting, Tonga, Easter Island and Maori migration; `The Queen who was marooned' (Campbell Island); typescript, `Women of mystery' by G G, also re Campbell Island; `The Woman of mystery' by Lilia G McKay, also re Campbell Island; article on M Alfred Poroi by Eric Ramsden; and `Savage Island and its people' by James Cowan, `A Brush with the natives' (northern Australia) by Alexander MacDonald, and `South Sea trader' by Louis Becke (all from The Leisure hour, 1901) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1940-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-126

Description: Photographs related to geography and geology, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1940 and 2000. Images related to geology are arranged alphabetically from C to LA. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1770-1900, [ca 1941]

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: MS-0947

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (31 pages). Physical Description: Ms (¼ green cloth, grey boards)

Date: 1910-1911

By: Gaby, James, 1896?-

Reference: qMS-0817

Description: Refers particularly to his training at sea and includes description of a voyage to the Sub-Antarctic islands to inspect shipwreck depots Quantity: 1 volume(s) (308 leaves). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (29 cm, blue linen)

Date: 1865-1890

By: Macpherson, John, active 1865-1890; Musgrave, Thomas (Capt), 1832-1891; Victoria HMVS (Ship: 1855-1920)

Reference: MSX-4936

Description: Musgrave's book, `Castaway on the Auckland isles' (1865) was dedicated to Macpherson. Macpherson has added letters, clippings, and other material. This includes letters from various people including Musgrave (persons entered under Name), clippings from newspapers of the time and up to 1897, `The Journals of the voyages and proceedings of HMCS "Victoria" in search of shipwrecked people at the Auckland and other islands', compiled by W H Norman and T Musgrave (1866), other notes and papers. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter with holograph annotations Grey phase box Transfers: From Book Collections -. Processing information: Volume transferred from the Printed collection. Record updated on 17 October 2023 to remove incorrect reference to Victoria HMS (Ship : 1859-1893).

Date: November 1907

By: Bollons, John Peter (Capt), 1862-1929; Page, Samuel, active 1907; Bollons, L R (Mrs), active 1946

Reference: PA1-q-228

Description: Album of photographs of plant and animal life on Stewart Island, Snares Islands, Auckland Islands and Campbell Island taken on the scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands undertaken in November 1907. Also includes are photographs of the Government steamship Hinemoa, on which the expedition travelled, and of of the remains of the ships Grafton and Dundonald, which were wrecked in the Auckland Islands. The photographer for the expedition was Samuel Page. A long two page inscription is inserted in the front of the album. Two copies, one hand-written with inscription and 25 signatures, followed by a copper-plate copy of the inscription and list of names. The inscription begins "To Captain J. Bollons, G.S.S. Hinemoa. We the members of the Scientific Expedition organised by the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury which has just visited the Auckland and Campbell Islands under your charge desire to thank you most sincerely & gratefully for the many facilities which you have put in our way for carrying on our investigations ..." One photograph shows the members of the Auckland Islands party of the expedition (names listed above). Another shows the surviving members of the crew of the Dundonald which was wrecked on Disappointment Island, and one showing three of the survivors on the deck of the Hinemoa with Hinemoa crew member K. Knudson, standing by the frame of a canvas boat which they used to try and escape from the island. (Photograph with caption listing their names, p 9) In 1907 the New Zealand Government agreed, after representations from the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, the Otago Institute and the New Zealand Institute, to land scientific parties on the Auckland Islands and Campbell Island, during the annual trip of the Government steamship Hinemoa, under the command of Captain Bollons, in November. The purpose of the expedition was to extend the magnetic survey of New Zealand, and to further investigate the geology, zoology and botany of these islands. The expedition left Bluff on 14 November 1907. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound photograph album with leather corners and spine, 36.3 x 29 cm Provenance: This album was presented to Captain Bollons by the members of the expedition.

Date: 12 Oct 1907-2 Nov 1909

Reference: MS-Papers-11114

Description: Diary of an unknown officer, who came out on the SS Arawa on its maiden voyage to New Zealand. Describes his transfer to the government vessel Hinemoa, and service on the scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic islands, rescuing castaways on Auckland Islands; also describes the ship's provisioning of lighthouses, his signing off and return to England. Describes the Sub-Antarctic islands in some detail Includes typed summary of his voyaging and copy of plan of New Zealand in its relation to sub-Antarctic islands Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Mullocks, Auctioneers, London, 2011

Date: [1890-1972]

From: Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand : Records

Reference: fMS-Papers-6064

Description: Comprises clippings on Disappointment Island, the conquest of Western Samoa, `Old man of the Colonial Office' by Arthur Grimble, population explosion in the Pacific by Kenneth Cumberland, `The Story of Pitt's Island' by Edward Wakefield (NZ Graphic 1890), `From Stewart Island to Siberia' about the muttton-bird, `A Coral speck in the Pacific' (Sun, Auckland, 1930), `Castaways of wind-swept isles of the Southern Ocean' and `The saga of the Sinclairs' (Sun, Christchurch, 1931, 1934) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

From: Falla, Robert Alexander (Sir), 1901-1979 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2366-361

Description: Contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, a State Services Commission Report and a journal, H.Escott-Inman 'The Castaways of Disappointment Island' (Whitcombe and Tombs, Wellington). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1889-1891

Reference: qMS-1221

Description: Papers relating to the Macquarie Islands, including historical and descriptive items, papers relative to the annexation of the islands by Great Britain, newspaper cuttings re loss of the Kakanui in Jan 1891, and sketches of points of interest in the group Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (40 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter (34 cm, ¼ dark maroon roan, faded blue boards) Sketches of points of interest

Date: 1902

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: E-566-f-007

Description: Shows the beach at Nugget Point, crowded with penguins which surround the upright hulk of the "Gratitude" beached above the tide. A rocky island stands offshore to the right. The "Gratitude" was wrecked at Nugget Point, Macquarie Island, on 10 November 1898. Extended Title - From his "Sketches among the islands of the South Pacific", 1902. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.N.W. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, on page 235 x 390 mm.

Date: 1868 - 1866

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1868-376-1

Description: Shows the "General Grant" tossing in the waves beneath the cliffs of Auckland Islands, part of its rigging in the water and its hull severely damaged. The "General Grant" was wrecked in 1866. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 165 x 235 mm