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Date: 21 Aug 1872-15 May 1873, 22 May 1873-20 Sept 1875

By: Barnes, L A W, active 1872-1875

Reference: MSY-6144

Description: Log book kept by Barnes while he was serving aboard HMS Minotaur, HMS Pearl and HMS Sappho. During the first voyage HMS Minotaur travelled from Portsmouth to Lisbon, Madeira and Gibraltar. During the second voyage HMS Pearl and HMS Sappho travelled from Portsmouth to Lisbon, Cape of Good Hope, Perth, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Adelaide and New Hebrides. During the second voyage Barnes was aboard HMS Sappho for most of the month of August 1875. The log book contains nautical entries, facts, maps and watercolours relating to the voyages. After the October 3rd 1874 entry, there is a longer commentary on the recovery of the ship McGregor off the coast of Fiji. Relationship complexity - See Micro-MS-Coll-20 for items relating to these voyages Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Processing information: Digitisation details - Volume includes inserted maps and sketches. These pages have been digitised in situ.

Date: 1 Jan 1850-31 Dec 1851

By: Swainson, Henry Gabriel, 1830-1892; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: MS-2096

Description: Journal kept by Swainson on board HMS `Havannah' and HMS `Bramble' on voyages between England, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Contains detailed descriptions of social life in Sydney, Wellington, Hobart and Auckland, and of the Society Islands, the Isle of Pines, Fiji and Rio de Janeiro. Includes a photograph of Swainson and an engraving of Crick Church, Northamptonshire. A typed inventory of outline of events is included. Accompanying material - Photograph of Henry Gabriel Swainson; transcript of portion of journal, Oct-Nov 1850, when Swainson was at the Isle of Pines; outline of events noted in the journal, by Lynda Scarth; note by Dorothy Swainson re provenance of journal; engraving of Crick Church, Northamptonshire Source of title - Supplied title: title on front endpaper `Private journal/Commencing Jan 1st 1850/Ending December 31st 1851/Henry Swainson/Her Majesty's Ship "Havannah"/ Sydney 1850-' Quantity: 1 volume(s) (186 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (23 cm, ½ red calf, marbled boards in red buckram hinged lid box) Transfers: Two pencil sketches (1) Hutt River (1849) signed W & HS and (2) of HMS `Havannah' at Darling Point, Port Jackson, removed to Drawings and Prints. Enlarged copy of photograph of Swainson in PS 284152.. Processing information: Digitisation details - Inserts located at the end of the digital files

Date: 28 Feb 1848-18 Dec 1851

By: Havannah HMS (Ship)

Reference: MSY-4239

Description: Comprises the log of HMS `Havannah' under Capt J E Erskine in which is recorded weather, the position of the ship, the wind, sailing direction, sails set, activities at certain times of the day and other aspects of shipboard life, especially maintenance. The voyage began in Sheerness via Lisbon, Madeira, Trinidad, Cape of Good Hope, St Paul's Island, Cape Otway, Australia (Farm Cove) to New Zealand, passing Three Kings Island to Auckland and sailing via Cape Runaway to Port Nicholson. From there the log records sailing for Sydney, Ports Phillip and Arthur, Hobart Town, often returning to ports already visited, back to NZ (Auckland, Bay of Islands), Savage Island, Samoa, Tonga and other locations not noted. The ship returned to both Australia and New Zealand again, and spent long periods at Farm Cove towards the end of the expedition. Source of title - Transcribed Further journals on board the `Havannah' were kept by Vigors (at qMS-2081 (original), qMS-2082-2084 (transcribed) and MS-Copy-Micro-0060); and by Henry Gabriel Swainson at MS-2096-2097, which also has his letters to his sister, and (MS-Copy-Micro-0172) The log has been recorded by several people, one of whom is thought to be a midshipman or crew member whose occupations included rigging marks, mats, washing clothes, painting the ship's side, mending sails and holding divine service. The voyage was notable for Erskine's discovery of the Torres Islands. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (420 pages numbered as 210 leaves). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (34 cm, ½ red morocco, marbled boards) Processing information: Access statement changed from "Partly restricted - Digital content available only in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room" to "Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original" on 26 October 2022.

Date: 1917, 2011

By: London, Karol, active 2011

Reference: MS-Papers-10803

Description: Collection comprises a typescript and manuscript article `Notes on the Maori disturbances in New Zealand during 1868 & 1869. By a Danish officer'. This article was originally written in Danish in 1868 by Hans Thiele and later translated into English. This translation was written by Thiele and his daughter Marie Madeleine Thiele (see note at end of article). Thiele served with the yeomanry cavalry who aided the Armed Constabulary and the Colonial Government troops under Colonel Whitmore who were fighting Titokowaru's forces in the South Taranki region. The war was engaged over rights to confiscated land and this history is highlighted in these accounts. Beginning at Wairoa (Waverley) this first hand account is detailed and gives a great insight into the tactics and practices of the colonial forces and Titokowaru's warriors, and their various military engagements. Thiele indicates the number of casualties and comments on the Hauhau's rites of cannibalism and the practice of removing the human heart from those slain in battle. Theile comments on pa sites, redoubts and fortifications. The narrative traces the defeat of the colonial troops in the early part of the campaign in 1868 then continues into 1869 as Colonel Whitmore purses Titokowaru at the Waitotara River and on to Patea. The article ends with Thiele detailing the removal of fifty Maori prisoners by the paddle steamer `Sturt' from Wanganui to Wellington. Includes photocopy of Thiele's obituary `Old colonist dies' published in the Fiji Times, 27 June 1917. Also a detailed biography of Hans Thiele compiled by Karol London. Source of title - Supplied by Library Hans Henrick Thiele was a Captain in the Danish Army (1864). Fought with the yeomanry cavalry in Taranaki against Titokowaru (1869). From New Zealand he travelled to South America, Britian and Fiji. Died in Suva in 1917. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts & printed material Transfers: Collection taken into the Manuscripts Section, transfers made from there. - To Photographic Archive - Black and white photographic print of Edith and Hans Thiele at Nausori in Fiji.

Date: 1860s-1902

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

By: Alexander, Dudley Henry (Major), 1863-1931

Reference: PA1-f-195

Description: This album, apparently compiled by Dudley Alexander (Lord Ranfurly's aide-de-camp and secretary), begins with a tour of France (which may have been undertaken by Alexander alone) in January 1897, continues with the Ranfurly family's journey out to New Zealand via Canada, Hawaii and Fiji; and concludes with images of the family's time in New Zealand, mostly in the South Island and in the years up to 1900. the album includes two photographs taken in the 1860s showing the old Government House in Wellington, originally built by Edward Gibbon Wakefield. These have been attached to the inside front cover, and may have been added retrospectively. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1873?]

From: Barnes, L A W, fl 1875 : Log book of a Pacific tour aboard HMS Minotaur, HMS Pearl and HMS Sappho

Reference: MSY-6144-170a

Description: Map depicts the cruize of the HMS Pearl from Auckland to Fiji Quantity: 1 map. Physical Description: Manuscript map, 230 x 214mm

Date: [1888-1892]

By: Bourke, Edmund G, active 1888-1892; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Connolly & Company; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919; Hart, Campbell & Company; Butcher, Pablo, active 2004

Reference: PA1-f-242

Description: Album compiled by Captain Edmund Bourke RN of HMS Hyacinth, on voyages in the Pacific ca 1888-1892. New Zealand views include Auckland, Tikitapu Bush, Waitakere Creek, Pink & white Terraces, Atiamuri, Ohinemutu, Wairakei, Napier, Wellington, Upper Hutt, McNab's Gardens (Lower Hutt), the Teremakau river and cable car, Nelson, Westland, Otira Gorge, Taipo, the Waimakariri River, Christchurch, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Dunedin and Invercargill. Pacific views include Rarotonga, Samoa, Fiji (including Suva), New Caledonia, Tahiti and Hawaii. Photographers represented include George Valentine, James Connolly, Wheeler & Son, J R Morris, and Hart, Campbell & Co. Includes of gold mining and sluicing in Westland, HM ships Ringarooma and Hyacinth, and games of croquet and polo in Hawaii. HMS Hyacinth, a 3rd class cruiser commissioned in 1886, cruised in the Pacific under the command of Captain Edmund G Bourke RN. In October-November 1888 Bourke sailed around the Cook Islands with the Vice-Consul, hoisting the flag in Rarotonga, Mangaia, Atiu, Mitiaro and Mauke. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Finding Aids: Manuscript list of images housed with album.

Date: 13 Jul-10 Nov 1850

By: Vigors, Philip Doyne, 1825-1903

Reference: qMS-2081

Description: Vigors went to Australia with the 11th Regiment of Foot, in 1846. The diary records a voyage to Auckland, Whangaroa, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Fiji, with detailed descriptions of places and peoples visited. The manuscript includes illustrative work by Vigors in ink, pencil and watercolour, of land and geographical features, activities and artifacts of Maori life and culture, and of the culture of the various Pacific peoples he encountered and named portraits of persons encountered; annotated paper from New South Wales Parliament re the Botanic Gardens, Sydney; clippings; and letter in French. The `Havannah' was commanded by Captain Erskine A listing of the holdings of the Public Record Office of Ireland relating to Philip Vigors is located in the back file for this collection Source of title - Title page Relationship complexity - Glass plate negatives of illustrations within the volume are held in the Photographic Archve collection (PAColl-6719). These appear to have been taken for inclusion in the 1924 typescript transcript of the journal (qMS-2082-2084). Lieutenant Vigors was with the 11th Regiment of Foot, serving in New South Wales at the time he undertook this voyage. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (249 pages). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, printed matter with original illustrations (26 cm; ½ black leather) Finding Aids: A list of sketches is included. Includes illustrations; transparencies of many of these are held by Drawings and Prints Section Processing information: Digitisation details - The digitised copy also includes five inserted pages which comprises a printed copy of a letter, a handwriten letter, and two leaves of a newspaper cutting.

Date: [1874?]

From: Barnes, L A W, fl 1875 : Log book of a Pacific tour aboard HMS Minotaur, HMS Pearl and HMS Sappho

Reference: MSY-6144-220a

Description: Map traces voyage of HMS Pearl from Sydney, Australia to Fiji Islands Quantity: 1 map. Physical Description: Manuscript map, 195 x 218mm