IMAGE
The steamship 'Rona', Auckland, 1922.
- Date
- 1922
- By
- De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925
- Reference
- 1/2-190172-G
- Description
The wreck of the steamship 'Rona' at Auckland in 1922. Photographed by an unidentified photographer. Copy negative made by David Alexander De Maus with his own title. See also negative taken from the same print, with slightly differing inscription, at 1/2-016163-G. File print for the similar negative available at: 387. Rona (1/2-016163)
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - S.S. "Rona" ashore at Auckland 1922.
The 'Rona' was a steel screw steamer of 6205 grt, built in 1918 by Sir R Dixon & Co., Middlesborough; owned by the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., Sydney. See Lloyd's Register (1921-1922). Still registered in "Ships in the Australian, New Zealand & Islands registers" (1951).
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Marines (Visual works), Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches, Orientation: Horizontal image
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