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Steam ship Mararoa in the Port Chalmers Graving Dock
- Date
- between 1885-1924
- Reference
- 1/1-003360-G
- Description
Steamship Mararoa, photographed in the Port Chalmers Graving Dock by David Alexander De Maus.
Steamship of 2598 tons, built in 1885 by W Denny & Bros., Dumbarton, Scotland, for the Union Steam Ship Co. The first USSCo. vessel in the trans-Pacific service, in 1886. Also in the Intercolonial service, and then on the Inter-island ferry service between Wellington & Lyttelton. Converted to an oil burner in 1924, and scuttled in Cook Strait in 1931. See Ships with New Zealand Associations (Vol 7, p 85)
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Dry plate negatives, Marines (Visual works), Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
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