Cargo ship of 7364 grt. Originally built in 1944 as a naval maintenance ship, but bought by the Union Steam Ship Company in 1946 for the Trans-Pacific service. Sold in 1967 to a Hong Kong company and renamed `Amelia'. Broken up in 1973. See MS-Papers-1196 (Vessels calling at Napier ... H M West); see also Lloyd's Register (1957-1958).
Waitemata (Ship : 1946-1967)
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New Zealand events - Miscellaneous
Date: Apr 1949
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-181
Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, Apr 1949 Scene at the civic reception held in Dixon Park, Greymouth to honour the visit of HMNZS Kaniere, one of the new frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy; Cromwell racecourse; action photos from Ngaruawahia's annual regatta (includes young Maori boy eating watermelon); Maori deputation visiting Parliament to discuss the question of liquor licence in the King Country (includes portrait of 78 year old Mrs A Huirama); exhibition held in Christchurch of Japanese wood-block colour prints compiled by K R Moshelm, a former director of Army Education and Welfare Service in Japan; Bailey bridge on Lewis Pass Road, near Glen Wye Station; photo of family of Gilbert Edwards, a Dunedin claimant to the fortune of a Welsh stonemason who immigrated to New York and died in 1789 (story in Free Lance, 20 Apr 1949). Makara Radio Station (series of photos including A F Smith, officer in charge of Makara Radio Station); Star Rugby Club, New Plymouth 60th jubilee celebrations and members of the 1919-1939 decades in the grand parade held at Rugby Park; limestone caves recently discovered at Lake Te Anau (Cave of Swirling Waters). Final section of the main highway between Auckland and Te Kuiti under construction (Mayor of Te Kuiti, K W Law watching final load of metal chips being laid); composting of Masterton's refuse; construction of the road at Belmont Gully and Haywards (Hutt Valley); repair of fault in the Auckland-Suva cable by Government steamer Matai; Union Steam Company's vessel Waitemata en route to Vancouver rescuing converted Fairmile launch Mahurangi in Pacific Ocean near Rarotonga. All Black captain Fred Allen, with former All Black Trevor Berghan and Mrs Berghan in fancy dress costume; Chinese crew's arrival in Auckland to take over the Union Steam Ship Company's vessel Kaikorai at Port Chalmers (sold to Hwah Lee Steam Ship Company of Shanghai) Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
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Waitemata, ship.
Date: Between 1947 and 1964
From: West, Harold Martin, 1920?-1987 :Shipping postcards and negatives
Reference: 1/4-026454-F
Description: Union Steam Ship Company ship `Waitemata' photographed at the port of Napier between 1947 and 1964, by Harold Martin West. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 4 x 6.5 cm
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Papers re Pacific and Far East ships
Date: 1946-1963
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-32/08
Description: Correspondence and related papers. The names of some of the ships are listed in the Name Field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Waitemata - Requisition book
Date: 1960-1967
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-14/01
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).
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Waitemata - Minute book
Date: 1961, 1966
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-14/11
Description: Includes requisition list, 1961 Quantity: 1 volume(s).
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Crew lists
Date: 1953-1955, 1958-1960
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-06/25
Description: Crew lists (arranged by ship), 1952-1955; also newspaper clippings re crimes committed by seamen, 1958-1960
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[New Zealand ephemera relating to labour, workers and working conditions, trade unions,...
Date: 1960 - 1969
Reference: Eph-B-LABOUR-1960s
Description: Includes: 1960s: 1960: Poem "Let's go round the shed again" by J Ewen, advertising "Fernfire" obtainable from Progressive Bookshop, Auckland. 1962: New Zealand Public Service Association. The Railway strike. [Flier] 1962: The truth about the Cable's dispute [re Wm Cable Holdings, Cable Price Downer] 1962: New Zealand Public Service Association. Your conditions in jeopardy. to set up the State Servces Commission 1962: Flier announcing Important meeting for Government employees. Majestic Theatre Willis Street, 5 December [1962] (Red flier, 2 copies) 1962: New Zealand Minister of Labour. New wage proposals for state servants. Flier 1962: State Service Organisations. To all state employees. Deception exposed. 3 December 1962. Grey flier 1966: Workers' Action Movement. Aren't New Zealanders good enough? 15 January 1966. Flier 1966-1967: New Zealand Seamen's Union. Stop this sell-out now. Waihemo sold - now Waitemata. Government's failure. [Flier] ca 1966?: New Zealand Seamen's Union. New Zealand needs an overseas National Line now!! Why? 1967: Combined Auckland-Otahuhu Strike Committee, NZ Railway Tradesmen's Association. Pamphlet no. 4, May 1967. Our fight is your fight. 1967: New Zealand Seamen's Union. Stop this sell-out [1967] 1968: Seamen stopwork protest. Why? For "a pension and welfare scheme". Give us your support. [Nov. 1868] 1968: Viewpoint special edition. July 1968 1968-1969: Protest flier and typescript sheet about the Wainui Dispute, by the Seaman's Union Late 1960s: Dominion dispute; Wellington Printing Trades Union. Flier 1969: New Zealand Printing and Related Trades Industrial Union of Workers. Holiday pay increased. 6 November 1969 [Typescript flier] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and letterpress, sizes varying up to 330 mm.
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Union Company - Ships - W
Date: [ca 1947-1963]
From: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926-2014: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-7271-34
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).