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Date: 1878

By: Forster, William James, 1851-1891; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000

Reference: D-022-014

Description: Shows a profile portrait of a three-masted sailing ship flying two flags from its mast tops. There is a steamship in the right distance, and Pencarrow Head and lighthouse in the left background. This painting was probably commissioned by the ship's three Wellington owners, or the Master Captain James Lee. The "Poneke" was built in Evans Bay, Wellington, in 1878 by John Rees George. She was 79.98 gross registered tons. Her length was 84.5 feet and beam was 18.9 feet. Initially registered at the port of Wellington on 19 March 1878, with her Master recorded as Stephen Ellis. She was owned by John Rees George, Civil engineer, 1878; Archibald McLeod, timber merchant, 1878-1880, William Waddell, Timber merchant and William Weir, timber merchant. Presumed to have foundered at sea with all hands (6) as she was not seen since being sighted off Greymouth. She had sailed from Onehunga on 11 June 1880. (Information from the seller, John Crowder, 1998) Accompanied by a loose card bearing the title "Poneke". To be mounted on the backing board. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 349 x 547 mm.

Date: 1883

From: Nairn, Betsey Wright, -1906 :Sketchbook

Reference: E-443-q-023

Description: Shows two scenes: in the top half 'Leaving Collingwood for Nelson', the small steamer "Lady Barkley" is being loaded with trunks, while the passengers walk on board along the gangplank behind their trunks. In the lower half 'Last ride in Nelson', two women mounted on horses, walk towards a gate in the left foreground. The foreground fence has a row of barbed wire for its top wire. On the right, faintly sketched in, is part of a house, with a garden archway alongside. Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - [First title]; Recto - bottom left - [Second title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 225 x 195 mm.

Date: between 1879 and 1909

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-003381-G

Description: Steamship `Penguin' at Port Chalmers. Photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Penguin"; Marginal notes on negative - top left - 659 The SS Penguin was built by Messrs. Todd & McGregor at Glasgow in 1864. She was owned by the Union Steam Ship Co. from 1879-1909. See Ships with New Zealand Associations (Vol. 7, p 33) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1890s

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-003504-G

Description: Unidentified steamship photographed at Port Chalmers by David Alexander De Maus, about the 1890s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [ca 1870]

From: Brierley, Kathleen Connaught, 1903-1979 :Photographs of New Zealand people and places

Reference: 1/2-004698-F

Description: The steamship Taranaki alongside the Picton wharves, circa 1870. Taken by an unidentified photographer. The `Taranaki' was built in 1865 by Blackwood & Gordon of Glasgow and operated by the NZ Steam Navigation Co, Wellington from 1865-68. She foundered on Boat Harbour Rock, Tory Channel, on 19 August 1868 but was raised in September 1869 and refitted for service. She was wrecked at Karewa Island on 29 November 1878. (Information from `Union Fleet' by Ian J Farquar) Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1874

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/4-009768-G

Description: The French warship 'La Vire' in Otago Harbour. She was a barque-rigged steamer sloop of 1625 tons, built at L'Oreuil in 1871. She took a French expedition to Campbell Island in 1874, and was present at the wreck of the ship Surat, at Catlins River, January 1874. Photographed by David Alexander De Maus. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: [January or February 1867]

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

Reference: E-370-003-2

Description: Two of the Tetley boys, (Cadwallader and either the oldest, Willy, or the youngest, Frank) watching from the Picton Wharf while one of their horses is winched onto the deck of a steamer, and the other horse waits its turn. The artist also comments 'The busy people of Picton stand on the wharf admiring with hands in pockets' of the group of men and women also standing on the wharf, waiting with boxes. The ship, as recorded on the following page of the sketchbook, is the Ahuriri Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 87 x 205 mm

Date: Feb 1882

Reference: 1/2-081058-F

Description: The S S Patea steaming out of the Patea River, and the Wakatu being repaired on the breakwater. Photograph taken February 1882 by an unidentified photographer. Other - Note on back of file print reads: "S S Patea 79 tons Outward bound" Source of descriptive information - Ian Church, Little ships of Patea (Palmerston North [N.Z.] : Dunmore Press, 1977), plates between 14-15. Church's source is listed as being Otago daily Times and Witness Christmas Annual 1899, Hocken Library. The `Patea' was built in 1878 and wrecked at Patea on 11 April 1882. (Information from Watts Index) Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [ca 1899-1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000245

Description: View of the ferry steamer berthed at the wharf in Mansion House Bay. Possibly a vessel belonging to the Northern Steam Ship Company vessel. Taken from a vantage point to the north overlooking the bay. Mansion House is obscured from sight by the trees in the immediate foreground. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Kawau Island. Auckland, NZ. No 1866 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: between 1892-1916

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-003462-G

Description: SS Warrimoo at Port Chalmers. Photographed by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - beneath image - "Warrimoo." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: between 1864-1909

Reference: 1/1-002361-G

Description: The steamship `Penguin' on Wellington Harbour. Taken by an unidentified photographer between 1864 and 1909. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - S S Penguin. Wellington The `Penguin' was built by Messrs Todd & McGregor, in Glasgow in 1864 and was operated by the Union Steam Ship Co from 1879. In February 12, 1909, she struck a rock in Cook Strait, foundered, and 75 lives were lost. (Information from Rex Hardy's `Ships with New Zealand Association', Vol 7, 33) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Ca 1880

From: Maplesden, Peter Wilson :Negatives of Evans Bay slip

Reference: 10x8-1822-G

Description: View of the patent slip at Evans Bay, Wellington, looking north from the harbour, showing the steamship Grafton and the schooner Julius Vogel (obscured) on the slip, and a small steam vessel on the hard alongside. Photograph taken ca 1880 by an unknown photographer. The photograph was taken on the same occasion as 10x8-1825-G, possibly in late 1880. The Grafton is recorded as stranding at the Buller river on 12 May 1880 and the Julius Vogel at Waitara on 31 July 1880, the only incident recorded for this vessel in New Zealand waters. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 8 x 10 inches

Date: 4 December 1876

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/2-015388-F

Description: Steamship 'Otago' on the rocks at Chaslands Mistake, 4 December 1876. Photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus. On photograph date given as 1874, but in reference books date given as 1876. See "New Zealand shipwrecks" (p 176) by C W N Ingram. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Otago" Chaslands Mistake 4 Dec 1874 [i.e. 1876]; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 13 D.Maus Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: between 1878-1899

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-002480-G

Description: Steamship Wakatipu in the graving dock at Port Chalmers, looking towards the harbour, with sailing ships moored in the background, photographed by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Arrival of S.S. "Wakatipu" U.S.S & Co. De Maus. Note on back of file print reads "b 1876. 1796 tons, U.S.S.Co 1878-1924. Broken up at Sydney." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: December 1883

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-002464-G

Description: Steamship Victory in Otago Harbour. Photographed by David Alexander De Maus in December 1883. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - beneath image - S.S. "Victory."; Marginal notes on negative - bottom centre - Victory Dec 1883 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5. inches

Date: [ca 1879]

Reference: PA2-2718

Description: Shows the ship Mountaineer, with passengers on board, ready for launching at Lake Wakatipu with spectators standing around. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Mount verso - The P.S. Mountaineer ready for launching at Lake Wakaitipu. This vessel was built in Dunedin by Kingcaid & McQueen Engineers - 1885? It was built at the works in Dunedin then dismantled into sections, conveyed by road to the Lake and re-assembled at Kingston. I understand it was the first steamer on the lake. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1874

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/2-015213-G

Description: The "Mongol" at anchor in Port Chalmers. Taken by David Alexander De Maus in 1874. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Mongol" The "Mongol" was run by the San Francisco Mail Services. She made one voyage to Port Chalmers, leaving London in December 1873, and arriving in February 1874 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: between 1883 and 1884

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-002140-G

Description: The steamship 'Florida', between 1883 and 1884. Taken at Port Chalmers by David Alexander De Maus. Dated from the fact that the Florida was chartered by the Shaw Savill Line between January 1883 and November 1884, when she completed two round voyages from London to New Zealand in the frozen meat trade. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - S.S. "Florida" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: between 1893-1899

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-003336-G

Description: The steamship "Gothic" in Port Chalmers, Dunedin. Photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus. Dated by the date the Gothic was built (1893) and by the latest year De Maus is known to have been actively taking photographs (1899). Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - R.M.S. "Gothic" 7730 Tons Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: Ca 1880

From: Maplesden, Peter Wilson :Negatives of Evans Bay slip

Reference: 10x8-1827-G

Description: View of the patent slip at Evans Bay, Wellington, looking north from the harbour, showing a ship's propellor in the foreground and a small steam vessel on the hard alongside the slip. Photograph taken, probably in the late 1870s, by an unknown photographer. The photograph was taken on the same occasion as 10x8-1823-G, and at a slightly earlier date than 10x8-1822-G. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 8 x 10 inches