Built in Dunedin in 1867 for the Harbour Steam Co. Sold in 1872 to N Edwards & Co (then owned by John Symons and the Shipping Dept which traded under the name of the Anchor Line of Steam Packets). Sold to Anchor Steam Shipping Co by estate of J Symons, Dec 1880. Altered from paddle to screw, 1884. Wrecked on retaining wall at Greymouth when entering river 14 Oct 1885. Vessel was badly holed and became a total wreck.
Wallace (Ship : 1867-1885)
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Manuscript
Wallace (Ship) : Remarks on bord [sic] of the P S Wallace
Date: Jun 1872
By: Wallace (Ship : 1867-1885)
Reference: Micro-MS-0522
Description: Notes on weather on voyage of the paddle steamer Wallace from Dunedin to Nelson; lists of cargo to and from West Coast ports Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (9 pages).
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Albion Wharf from Railway Wharf, Port Nelson
Date: ca 1879
Reference: 1/2-018594-F
Description: View from the Railway Wharf, Port Nelson, circa 1879. Shows Ship Inn (later the Tasman Hotel) on the far left; Pier Hotel (behind man on bollard); Albion Hotel (two buildings erected over the water); Albion Store (behind the Hotel); paddle steamer "Wallace" (minus funnel prior to her lengthening) alongside Albion Wharf ; behind Albion Wharf is the Anchor Foundry on Wakefield Quay. Photographer unidentified. Information about this image provided by AT 13/12/4, 16 June 2003 This image published in "Thomas Cawthron and the Cawthron Institute" by David Miller Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
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Ring, James, 1856-1939 :The ship `Wallace' stranded at Greymouth
Date: 1885
By: Ring, James, 1856-1939
Reference: PA7-51-17
Description: Shows the ship on its side and stranded at Greymouth beside the railway track. Photograph taken by James Ring in 1885 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 135 x 210 mm
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Photograph album compiled by William Herbert Perkins
Date: [ca 1881]
From: Perkins, J (Mr), fl 1967 :Photograph album and loose prints
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Perkins, William Herbert, -1927; Ring, James, 1856-1939
Reference: PA1-o-415
Description: Photographs of Greymouth, Grey River, Brunnerton, Ahaura, Reefton, Waimakariri, Lake Pearson, Lake Brunner, Dillmanstown, Milford Sound, Franz Josef Glacier, Ross, and the thermal areas of central North Island. The photographers represented include William Herbert Perkins, James Ring and the Burton Brothers. There is one interior view of a quartz-crushing battery at Reefton. Pages 55, 57 and 58 have portraits of women (and one man) in "Fancy Fair" costumes Inscriptions: Album page - "William Perkins. Greymouth. 1884" Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, darker corners and spine; "Album" lettered in gold on spine; 23.5 x 30.0 cm