Ships and shipping

Date
[ca 1914-1950]
Reference
PAColl-0785-1-095
Description

Photographs of New Zealand and overseas ships, mostly made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1900s-1950s.

New Zealand related images include: Otago Harbour Board dredge Otakau; Matangi leaving Nelson waterfront; dredges on floating dock at New Plymouth; dredges Westport and Wanganui being overhauled and refitted at patent slip at Evans Bay; unidentified troopship leaving Wellington with 19th Reinforcements.

Also: Cyrenia (formerly HMNZHS Maunganui); steamer Albany stranded at Muriwai Beach; SS Mangapapa; coastal shipping discharging and loading cargo at Auckland waterfront; Devonport Ferry Company's new cargo steamer Sparrowhawk ready for commission; barque Daniel enroute from Auckland to Sydney; Tofua on eve of being withdrawn from service; SS Navua at Wellington wharves; S S Victoria and SS Pateena berthed at Wellington; unidentified troopship at Port Chalmers; MV Tainui; Union Steam Ship vessel Niagara; Yunnan chartered by Australian-Orient Line, at Wellington

Includes various photographs of overseas ships (names not added to Name field)

Quantity: 29 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints; 1 album leaf with sepia photographic print.

Physical Description: Photochemical prints and silver gelatin print

Access restrictions
No access restrictions
Part of
New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives / Photographic prints
Format
29 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints; 1 album leaf with sepia photographic print, Photographs, Marines (Visual works), Photochemical prints and silver gelatin print
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