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Nolan, Brian, 1935-2011 : Papers - Naval career and Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958)
- Date
- 1951-2008
- By
- Nolan, Brian, 1935-2011
- Reference
- MS-Group-2014
- Description
Collection comprises scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings, certificates, ephemera and photographs relating to Nolan's career as an Able Seaman in the New Zealand Navy. A large percent of the items detail the 1955-1958 Trans-Antartic Expedition and the New Zealand Ross Sea Support team, led by Sir Edmund Hillary. Also includes some family related material including telegrams and newspaper articles relating to Ann Nolan.
Source of title - Supplied by Library
Nolan joined the Navy at fifteen years of age. His first placement was aboard the `HMNZS Tamaki'. He served aboard three other vessels before joining the advance party flown to England to serve aboard the `HMNZS Endeavour', supply ship for the Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1956. He later served on the `HMNZS Royalist' in the Pacific in 1961.
Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Mss, ephemera & printed material
Provenance: The two scrapbooks in this collection were complied by Mrs Ann Nolan
Transfers: Collection taken into the Manuscripts Section as a whole, transfers made from there. - To Photographic Archive - Two colour, fifty-two black & white photographs (PAColl-9943).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 3 folder(s), 0.03 Linear Metres, Certificates, Clippings, Photographs, Ephemera, Invitations, Scrapbooks, Telegrams, Postcards, Autographs, Manuscripts, Mss, ephemera & printed material
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Navy scrapbook
Date: 1956-1957, 1991
From: Nolan, Brian, 1935-2011 : Papers - Naval career and Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958)
Reference: fMS-Papers-11155-1
Description: Scrapbook contains newspaper cuttings relating to the HMNZS Endeavour and the Antarctic voyage Dec 1956-Mar 1957 with the New Zealand Antarctic Expedition team to Scott Base. Also includes two telegrams from Brian Nolan to his wife Ann sent from the HMNZS Endeavour as she passed through the Panama Canal and the Galapagos Islands, Sep 1956. Enclosed loose within the scrapbook is a medical certificate for Nolan, 1971. Other - Includes loose newspaper cuttings tucked in Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss & printed material
Telegrams home to New Zealand
Date: 1956
From: Nolan, Brian, 1935-2011 : Papers - Naval career and Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958)
Reference: fMS-Papers-11155-2-1
Description: Two pages from scrapbook with four telegrams from Nolan home to his mother in Patutahi, Gisborne. Telegrams sent while Nolan was enroute from Adelaide, Australia to join the vessel `Endeavour' in Southampton, England. The `Endeavour' sailed to New Zealand via the Panama Canal. Quantity: 2 pages (double-page). Physical Description: Printed material with mss annotation
Autograph sheet - Trans-Antartic Expedition (1955-1958)
Date: [1958]
From: Nolan, Brian, 1935-2011 : Papers - Naval career and Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958)
Reference: MS-Papers-11155-1
Description: Single leaf of Scott Polar Expedition paper signed by members of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition including Sir Edmund Hillary, Bob Miller, Walter Tarr, John Lewis, Hannes la Grange, Allan Rogers, Roy Homard, Ken Blaiklock, John Stephenson, Geoff Pratt and Sir Vivian Fuchs. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Ms (200mm x 250mm)