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The ship Prince of Wales in Picton Harbour
- Date
- [ca 1910]
- Reference
- 1/2-017167-F
- Description
The ship `Prince of Wales' in Picton Harbour, circa 1910. Photographer unidentified.
Note on back of file print reads "Freezing ship: `P of W' lying in Picton Harbour. This ship was built by the Hudson Bay Co in 1857; & was very strongly constructed for the ice - she had a 9' of solid oak in the bows, had twin screw compound engines & steamed 4.5-5.5 knots. She was bought to NZ by Messrs Nelson Bros and used up and down the coast as a depot freezing ship. Had a very comfortable accomodation. [Was] a hulk in Wellington's harbour."
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Layton, Frederick G, d 1923 : Shipping photographs
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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