Matangi (Ship)

Date: [ca 1914-1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

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cargo steamer Sparrowhawk ready for commission; barque Daniel enroute from Auckland to Sydney; Tofua on eve of being withdrawn from service; SS Navua at Wellington wharves; S S Victoria and SS Pateena berthed at Wellington; unidentified troopship at Port Chalmers; MV Tainui; Union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

Date: 1979

From: Bannister, Leslie Walter, 1905-1982: Papers

Reference: MSX-9624

Description: Typescript volume with photographic illustrations mounted. Title page "Over land and sea with Leslie W. Bannister This is not my life story but a collection of records I have kept of my sea service and my travels overseas also of the places I visited during my periods of residence in England together with occasional notes Compiled and typed by L. W. Bannister Completed in 1979". Portrait photograph of Leslie W Bannister mounted in frontispiece, dated 1960. The volume is in three parts, with the following sub-title pages "Part Two - Diary extracts taken from diaries kept during my periods of residence in England from July 25, 1952 to September 17, 1955 and from August 30, 1960 to October 5, 1962 which include visits to Scotland Wales The Isle of Man Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland and Italy". And the third section "Part Three - The log of the Anne Comyn being a daily record kept of voyages made on the American 5 masted barquentine Anne Comyn 1923-24 from Newcastle N.S.W. to Antofagasta in 63 days. (pages 4 to 11) From Antofagasta to Honolulu in 51 days. (Pages 12 to 17) From Anyox B.C. to Melbourne. (pages 18 to 32) also some notes of a nautical nature". Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Bound typescript manuscript with mounted illustrations, including photographic prints, 23 x 17 cm.

Date: February 1924

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1287-1/2-G

Description: The steam ship Matangi at Mount Maunganui wharf. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in February 1924. Original print in Godber album PA1-q-102, page 200 with caption below reading 'S S Matangi at Mt Maunganui wharf. 2/24' Inscriptions: Album page - SS Matangi at Mt Maunganui wharf. 2/24. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: Nov 1956

By: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926-2014

Reference: PICT-000176

Description: The vessel 'Matangi' at a ship-breakers yard in Whakatahurie, Pelorus Sound, Marlborough, November 1956, photographed by James Douglas Wilkinson. Source of descriptive information - Name of vessel from backing card for this print. Location and date identified by Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 9 x 13.8 cm

Date: Nov 1956

By: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926-2014

Reference: PICT-000174

Description: The vessel 'Matangi' at a ship-breakers yard in Whakatahurie, Pelorus Sound, Marlborough, November 1956, photographed by James Douglas Wilkinson. Source of descriptive information - Name of vessel from backing card for this print. Location and date identified by Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 9 x 13.8 cm

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Miller, E D N :Photographs by Isaac Jeffares, and of family

Reference: 1/2-077656-G

Description: Tauranga, showing the harbour, wharf and buildings on the waterfront. In the harbour is the ship `Matangi' (with smoke coming from the funnel) and the tug `Ruru'. Photograph taken circa 1920s by Isaac Jeffares. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Nov 1956

By: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926-2014

Reference: PICT-000177

Description: The vessel 'Matangi' at a ship-breakers yard in Whakatahurie, Pelorus Sound, Marlborough, November 1956, photographed by James Douglas Wilkinson. Source of descriptive information - Name of vessel from backing card for this print. Location and date identified by Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 9 x 13.8 cm

Date: Nov 1956

From: Wilkinson, James Douglas :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/4-012028-F

Description: The vessel 'Matangi' at a ship-breakers yard in Whakatahurie, Pelorus Sound, Marlborough, November 1956, photographed by James Douglas Wilkinson. 'Kaitoa' is in the background. Source of descriptive information - Vessel identified on no neg print in TLP files. Date and location from Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative