Ships and shipping

Date
[ca 1904-1950]
Reference
PAColl-0785-1-092
Description

Photographs of New Zealand and overseas ships, and New Zealand ports, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1904-1950s.

New Zealand related images include: Aerial photograph of Lyttelton Harbour; series of photographs of ports - Ahuriri (Napier), Timaru, Dunedin, Bluff, Gisborne, Wanganui and Waitara.

Also: Wreck of iron barqe Antiope (14 Sep); wrecked barque Rewa near Kawau Island; MV Hornby Grange at Auckland prior to departure for Britain; scow Bee stranded at mouth of Puhoi River; schooner Fairburn stranded on Opotiki Bar; coastal steamer Awahou; wrecked NZSCo steamer Tongariro on Bull Rock, off Portland Island (Aug 1916).

Series of photographs of the sailing ship Pamir; Orient Line steamers Orsova and Orcades; sailing ship Canterbury in Timaru Harbour, Apr 1904; barque Joseph Craig damaged in Rangitoto Channel tied up at King's Wharf, Auckland, 1912; 2 unidentified ships in NZ waters.

Also a number of overseas passenger and cargo ships.

Quantity: 47 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints and 2 album leaves with 5 black & white photographic prints.

Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and photochemical prints

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Part of
New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives / Photographic prints
Format
47 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints and 2 album leaves with 5 black & white photographic prints, Photographs, Marines (Visual works), Silver gelatin prints and photochemical prints
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