Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company Ltd

Date: ca 1905

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 15

By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962

Reference: PAColl-7081-69

Description: A view of the wharves in Nelson with the offices of the Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company in the foreground with piles of timber behind it. A sailing ship is moored at one of the wharves. Photographer was F N Jones. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1907-1909]

By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA7-52-18

Description: View of the `Tasman' berthed at Nelson. Passengers and crew can be seen standing on the deck. Premises of Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company Ltd are visible in the background. Photograph taken by Tyree Brothers in early 1900s Inscriptions: Backing board recto - bottom left - Tasman Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 18 x 23.7 mm on card 25 x 30.5 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

Reference: MapColl-os834.2bje/[186-?]/Acc.29232

Description: Hand drawn map depicting an area just to the west of Kekerengu on the Marlborough coast back to the Mead Stream. Shows part of the Clarence and Kekerengu rivers and Ouse and Boundary streams. Gives the boundaries of Saw Tooth Run and shows parts of the adjoining runs: Woodbank and Mead-Hill. Gives the section number and rough boundaries of a number of land blocks within this area. Bottom left hand corner gives the acreages of land held under lease and land purchased from each run. Also has a legend stating 'Purchased land colo[u]red yellow' however this colour has faded from the map. Map was sold to John Crowther from a disposal of records from the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Co of Nelson. This map possibly records property owned by the Company but this cannot be verified. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper linen backed, coloured, scale [1: 15 840], 81 x 128 cm. Provenance: Purchased from John Crowther, March 2000

Date: ca 1902-1906

Reference: PAColl-7303

Description: Photographs of the Koi being launched in 1906 in front of a crowd outside the Anchor Foundry; a group of men in the yard outside the old office of Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company Ltd; the Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company Ltd building and adjacent office ca 1920s; and three ships, the Opua, Nikau and Kaitia(?), being loaded with fruit for the export market at Motueka port. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-003241 to 003244 Quantity: 4 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 6 Sep 1945-Dec 1952

From: Waters, Sydney David, 1883-1965 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8455-21

Description: Newspaper clippings, and journal articles collected by Waters, the clippings focus on coastal shipping companies and the removal of the Cook Strait Ferry from Nelson. Also includes drafts for articles written by Waters. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1936-1970

From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records

Reference: 80-307-29/12

Description: File entitled `Scow Rangi inquiry File 4' includes correspondence and related papers about the Rangi inquiry, ca 1936 and later inquiries. Correspondence with the Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company Ltd, Port Nelson, 1960s-1970s Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1930-1960]

From: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926-2014: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7271-56

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1940s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 15

Reference: PAColl-7081-07

Description: The ship 'Nikau',in Wellington Harbour, circa 1940s. Inscriptions: Verso - The Cabin Ship Photograph Series. Name of vessel: Nikau. Company: Anchor. Catalogue No for Re-Orders 1996. 'Nikau'was built in 1909 for the Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.3 x 13.3 cm

Date: ca 1900

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/1-009431-G

Description: Men and boys on a private railway locomotive on the Takaka tramway, circa 1900. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones. Note on back of file print reads: "Private railway loco - built at Anchor Foundry, Nelson ca 1900". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca 1879

Reference: 1/2-018594-F

Description: View from the Railway Wharf, Port Nelson, circa 1879. Shows Ship Inn (later the Tasman Hotel) on the far left; Pier Hotel (behind man on bollard); Albion Hotel (two buildings erected over the water); Albion Store (behind the Hotel); paddle steamer "Wallace" (minus funnel prior to her lengthening) alongside Albion Wharf ; behind Albion Wharf is the Anchor Foundry on Wakefield Quay. Photographer unidentified. Information about this image provided by AT 13/12/4, 16 June 2003 This image published in "Thomas Cawthron and the Cawthron Institute" by David Miller Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative