Built in 1909 for the Anchor Shipping & Foundry Co Ltd, Nelson. Registered in August 1909 in the Port of Nelson; 1955 in Auckland; and 1956 in Fiji. (Wrecked in New Hebrides, 5 December, 1964?)
Nikau (Ship)
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Dickie Collection :Photographs of ships
Date: ca 1909-1914
From: Dickie, John, 1869-1942 :Collection of postcards, prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0735
Description: Photographs of ships taken or collected by John Dickie including some duplicates. Quantity: 63 b&w copy photographic print(s).
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Photographer unknown: Family photographs
Date: [ca 1914-1925]
Reference: PAColl-6900
Description: 134 family photographs mostly taken in a back garden but with a few taken in next to a river and by the sea (possibly Island Bay). Two views are of Wellington streets and one shows a young man at a wireless telegraphy set. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-038504 to 038639, 038655 and 106036 to 106037 Quantity: 139 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives
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Over Land and Sea with Leslie W. Bannister
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.
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Ship Nikau, Wellington Harbour
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
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Ship Nikau
Date: [195-?]
From: Wilkinson, James Douglas :Shipping negatives
Reference: 1/4-013013-F
Description: Ship Nikau. Photograph taken 1950s by James Douglas Wilkinson. Source of descriptive information - Negative register, New Zealand Maritime Index Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative