Places

Date: 1944-1961

By: Jenkin, Robert, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-4312

Description: Collection comprises: Coast guard launch no1, Manakau, a 22 ft hard chine launch built late 1930s of demolition kauri by the sons of A J Jenkin, photographed by Cleve Jenkin. Unloading cattle at Okupu, Great Barrier Island, taken ca 1939 by Cleve Jenkin. 60ft cargo vessel built 1945 for Fijian Government, photographed in Auckland by A N Breckon. Photographs of sailing ships Kommodore Johnsen (ex Magdelene Vinnen) and Pamir, taken ca 1930s by Cleve Jenkin. Launch Maralon being launched at Kerikeri inlet, photographed 1961 by Cleve Jenkin. Lighter built in Auckland for the US Navy, photographed 1944 by Cleve Jenkin. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Aug 2001

From: Rhodes, Valerie June, 1932- : Spencer and Rhodes family histories

Reference: MSX-8196

Description: Reminiscence of this early years growing up in Mount Victoria, Wellington, and teenage years spent in Lyall Bay, Wellington. Describes the family homes at Derby Street and Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria; holidays at Hihitahi; childhood entertainment; war years and visit of the Pamir; hobbies (reading, model-making); years at Clyde Quay School (includes photo of Std 1 taken in 1939) and time spent at Otaki Health Camp. Move to Queens Drive, Lyall Bay and years at Wellington College. Discusses first years of his working life and ends with his move to Upper Hutt as an optometrist with Cocks & Newall, and meeting his wife Valerie Spencer in 1954. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Surname index at back.

Date: 1931 - 1932, 1939 - 1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Moore & Thompson (Firm); Male, John Gifford, 1913-2003; Browne, Victor Carlyle, 1900-1979; Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980; Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Crago, Eric William, 1904-1992; Robson, Edward Thomas, 1875-1953

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-037

Description: Photographs of yachting and scenic views, 1931, 1932, 1939 and 1940, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of yachting, fishing, sheep droving, birdlife, lakes and rivers. Photographers include George Weigel, Thelma Kent, T W Collins, H Banfield, V C Browne, J G Male, L P Crago and A W Powell. Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1960 - 1970

From: Various artists :Reproductions of ship portraits by W W Stewart and J E Hobbs. 1960s-1970s]

Reference: A-467-012

Description: Shows the ship 'Aorangi II' in calm water. Land is visible in the distance. The sailing ship 'Pamir' is also shown. Information from the back of the image says that it shows Aorangi II arriving in Auckland in 1948 Numbered '14' on the reverse, possibly part of a series Inscriptions: Verso - centre - "14" Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, block-mounted, 255 x 362 mm

Date: [ca 1904-1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-092

Description: Photographs of New Zealand and overseas ships, and New Zealand ports, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1904-1950s. New Zealand related images include: Aerial photograph of Lyttelton Harbour; series of photographs of ports - Ahuriri (Napier), Timaru, Dunedin, Bluff, Gisborne, Wanganui and Waitara. Also: Wreck of iron barqe Antiope (14 Sep); wrecked barque Rewa near Kawau Island; MV Hornby Grange at Auckland prior to departure for Britain; scow Bee stranded at mouth of Puhoi River; schooner Fairburn stranded on Opotiki Bar; coastal steamer Awahou; wrecked NZSCo steamer Tongariro on Bull Rock, off Portland Island (Aug 1916). Series of photographs of the sailing ship Pamir; Orient Line steamers Orsova and Orcades; sailing ship Canterbury in Timaru Harbour, Apr 1904; barque Joseph Craig damaged in Rangitoto Channel tied up at King's Wharf, Auckland, 1912; 2 unidentified ships in NZ waters. Also a number of overseas passenger and cargo ships. Quantity: 47 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints and 2 album leaves with 5 black & white photographic prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and photochemical prints

Date: 1864-2003

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8066-04

Description: Monument to Captain Cook at Calfont St Giles, England; documents relating to the 1918 influenza epidemic; ancient Maori artifacts; Opanaki Hotel; a pallisade post at Ruapekepeka; views of Helensville park; exterior views of Captain William Butler's house at Mangonui and its cemetery; the wreck of the "Waikare" in Dusky Sound in 1910, the sailing ships "Pamir" and "Ida Ziegler." Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: From 1911 to 1949

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-007

Description: Black & white photographs of the Wellington area, Vol 1 (images 1-240), taken by G L Adkin between 1911 and 1949. Earlier images include the house Fern Hill (at 324 The Terrace), and views from the house; Kelburn Cable Car tunnel, and view of the cable car from Kelburn Park; Wellington Botanic Garden; inner city views of Willis St., Lambton Quay (1913); Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie isthmus, Wellington Heads, Oriental Bay (1913); Harbour and city; swimming carnival at Island Bay; city from Mt Cook trig station (1918); panorama of Thorndon with Pipitea Point reclamation from the Nth end of Barnard St (1923); interior view of the Wellington City Corporation Trams Shed at Newtown; Kemp Point Powerhouse, Evans Bay; Miramar Gas Works (1923); Wider views of the city with Tinakori Ridge from Roseneath, Oriental Bay, Lyall Bay (1926); loading the Maheno (1926). Laying Foundation Stone of new railway station by the Duke of Gloucester, showing steel frame of the building under construction (17 December 1934). Views around the city in 1936, including Worser Bay, Breaker Bay, Dorset Point, Queens Drive, the city (panorama from Karepa St, Brooklyn); "wilds of Wellington" Mitchelltown, Highbury, Taitville, and Kelburn (from Karepa St); snow on hills and at Mt Kaukau (2 August 1936). Centennial Exhibition (6 March 1940). Views around the bays in 1948, Lyall Bay, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, Eastbourne, Days Bay, Lowry Bay. Comparative views from Mt Alfred (1 taken in 1948, the other in 1905). Pamir sailing ship at Aotea Quay (December 1948); railway yards; Kaiwharawhara Gorge (1948); and the first visit of the Solent flying boat Ararangi to Evans Bay, October 1949.

Date: 1986 - 1994

By: New Zealand Pamir Association

Reference: Eph-B-SHIP-NZPA

Description: Includes menus of the biennial reunion dinners at Overseas Passenger Terminal Wellington, 19-21 September 1986 (2 copies); Autolodge Christchurch 14-16 October 1988 (2 copies); Seaworld Nara Resort Hotel, Surfers Paradise, 21-23 September 1990 (2 copies); Suncourt Motor Hotel Taupo, 5-9 November 1992 (2 copies), and Beachcomber Inn Picton, 3-7 November 1994. Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (plus duplicate of four). Physical Description: Photolithographs, on sheets folded to 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1941 - 1949

By: New Zealand Pamir Association

Reference: Eph-E-SHIP-NZPA-01/03

Description: Three wall charts or posters, showing pictures of the sailing ship Pamir, and each listing four voyages of the Pamir, and the crew members on each voyage. The twelve voyages were made in the years 1941-1949. First chart covers 1941-1944; second covers 1944-1946; third covers 1946-1949. Voyages were: Finnish flag. New Plymouth - Seychelles - Wellington, August 1941. Voyage 1. Wellington - San Francisco - Wellington, March - September 1942 Voyage 2. Wellington - San Francisco - Wellington, November 1942 - June 1943 Voyage 3. Wellington - San Francisco - Wellington, July 1943 - February 1944. Voyage 4. Wellington - San Francisco - Wellington. March - September 1944 Voyage 5. Wellington - San Francisco - Wellington, October 1944 - March 1945 Voyage 6. Wellington - Vancouver - Wellington, April - August 1945 Voyage 7. Wellington - Vancouver - Wellington, September 1945 - March 1946 Voyage 8. Wellington - Vancouver - Wellington, May - October 1946 Voyage 9. Wellington - Lyttelton - Sydney - Wellington, November 1946 - April 1947 Voyage 10. Wellington - London - Antwerp - Auckland - Wellington, October 1947 - October 1948 Finnish flag. Wellington - Port Victoria - Falmouth - Penarth, January - October 1949 All crew were male, except for two women stewardesses on the final voyage under a Finnish flag. The first and last voyages were sailed under the Finnish flag, the remainder under the New Zealand flag. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, 915 x 635 mm. Provenance: Donated by the New Zealand Pamir Association, Wellington, in 2012.

Date: 1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-8163-14

Description: After being checked by the sail makers this sail is being carried along the deck of the ship Pamir before being placed below deck. Shows Graeme Sheppard on the left. Photograph taken in 1947. Photographer unidentified. Other - Published in the New Zealand Free Lance 8 October 1947 Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print Inscriptions: Verso - After being checked by the sail mkers this spare sail is placed below Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.8 x 16.8 cm

Date: 1940s

From: Owen :Photographs of Somes Island and the ship "Parmir"

Reference: 1/2-025572-F

Description: The barque Pamir in Wellington Harbour. Taken by an unidentified photographer during the 1940s. The Pamir first arrived in Wellington in July 1941, and made many voyages under the New Zealand flag in the 1940s. She was lost in the mid-Atlatic with all of her crews in 1957. (Information from 'Fresh about Cook Strait: an appreciation of Wellington Harbour'. Methuen : New Zealand, 1984, by Grahame Anderson.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1943]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-002004-F

Description: The ship Pamir in Wellington Harbour. Photograph taken circa 1943, by John Dobree Pascoe. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - above image - 22004 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [circa 2 February 1938]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970

Reference: PAColl-5469-020

Description: The barque Pamir entering Auckland Harbour, circa 2 February 1938. North Head is in the background. Photograph taken by A W Powell. Published in the New Zealand Free Lance, 2 February, 1938, page 5 to accompany the article `Tales of a tall ship; Sidelights on the Finnish barque Pamir's visit to Auckland'. The caption underneath the photograph reads `The old era passes. The Finnish four-masted barque, Pamir, one of the last of the sailing ships arrives at Auckland' Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 31 March 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000951-F

Description: The barque Pamir setting sail leaving Wellington Heads. Taken by John Dobree Pascoe on 31 March 1944. Original caption reads: "Safe voyage to the 'Pamir' was the wish of those who saw her sail into the distance." Image from the War Effort Collection is at IA 628 The Pamir arrived in Wellington in July 1941, and made many voyages under the New Zealand flag in the 1940s. She was lost in the mid-Atlantic with all of her crew in 1957. (Information from 'Fresh about Cook Strait: an appreciation of Wellington Harbour'. Methuen, 1984, by Grahame Anderson.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 31 March 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000940-F

Description: The barque "Pamir" in Wellington Harbour. Taken by John Dobree Pascoe, 31 March 1944. Original caption reads: "The 'Pamir' has brought valuable cargoes safe to New Zealand since she was acquired by the New Zealand Government." The "Pamir" was a barque of 2799 gross tons, built in Hamburg in 1905 and owned by the New Zealand Government.(Information from 1/2-044818) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-7171-18

Description: Graeme Sheppard working on a jigger staysail on board the ship 'Pamir', Wellington Harbour, 1947. The 'Pamir' was due to leave for Britain. Free Lance photograph. Photographer unidentified. This image published in the New Zealand Free Lance 8/10/47, page 27 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.1 x 15.2 cm

Date: 1940s

From: Wills Johnson, Kate Miria, 1929-1995: Papers and photographs relating to the Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-962

Description: Most of the photographs in this album date from 1945 and 1946. There are young men, some of whom are in military uniform, all of them friends and aquaitances of Miria Wills Johnson. One page of photographs depicts her Australian pen friends, another, people who attended a Y.P.C. Carnival Ball. Three photographs show a group of young men playing baseball, and there are two pages of snaps of motorbike races in progress. Family members, pets, picnics and excursions are represented. The largest section of photographs relate to the barque "Pamir" which was visited and photographed by Miria Wills Johnson when it was in Lyttelton in November/December 1946. Many of the photographs were taken for her. She climbed the bowsprit, the masts and the yard arms and took views of Lyttelton Harbour and of other ships in port at the time. Many of the sailors have been photographed and named. One, Colin Jessup, she seemed to know, and he was probably a Chatham Island connection. There are also photographs and a press cutting of the newly delivered inter island ferry, "Hinemoa". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Processing information: Previous access statement 'Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission" was removed in May 2022.

Date: 31 January 1949

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-048253-G

Description: The barque Pamir in Wellington Harbour, with no sails visible. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith on 31 January 1949. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - right of image - JAN 31 1949 The Pamir first arrived in Wellington in July 1941, and made many voyages under the New Zealand flag in the 1940s. She was lost in the mid-Atlantic with all of her crew in 1957. (Information from 'Fresh about Cook Strait: an appreciation of Wellington Harbour'. Methuen : New Zealand, 1984, by Grahame Anderson.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-7171-10

Description: George Gunn repairing a sail on the ship 'Pamir', Wellington, 1947, before its trip to Britain. Free Lance photograph. Photographer unidentified. This image published in the New Zealand Free Lance 8/10/47, page 27 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 19.9 x 15.3 cm