Located at Waitangi within the permanently moored vessel Tui. First visitor to the Museum was on 12 January 1970. Formerly known as Museum of Shipwrecks. Known as the Shipwreck Museum and Restaurant in 2000 when relics where stolen from the museum.
Kelly Tarlton's Museum of Shipwrecks
Kelly Tarlton's Shipwreck Museum
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Kelly Tarlton Museum Of Shipwrecks :Photographs of the anchors of the St Jean Baptiste ...
Date: [ca 1974]
By: Kelly Tarlton's Museum of Shipwrecks; Tarlton, Kelvin Ewart, 1937-1985
Reference: PAColl-0412
Description: Five photographs of anchors from the St Jean Baptiste, which had been commanded by Jean de Surville, and which sank in Doubtless Bay in 1769. Two anchors were found by Kelly Tarlton in 1974. These photographs show the first anchor (and the second?). Also a photograph of the former cray boat the Miss Akaroa, probably at Napier. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-068692 and 116413 Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).
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Museum of Shipwrecks :Museum Barque "Tui". Diver Kelly Tarlton's sunken treasure and sh...
Date: 1978 - 1982
Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1980-01
Description: Card in the shape of a helmeted diver. The verso shows diver Kelly Tarlton, and divers salvaging trinkets and relics. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on man-shaped card, 220 x 100 mm.
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Locker-Lampson, Steve, 1937-2012: Interviews about Kelly Tarlton
Date: 3 March 1995 - 18 January 1996
By: Locker-Lampson, Steve, 1937-2012
Reference: OHColl-1153
Description: Comprises 13 interviews with people who knew Kelly Tarlton, the marine archaeologist, diver, and marine conservationist who died in 1985. Tarlton's widow Rosemary and daughters Fiona and Nicole also contribute. Interviewees recall first meeting Tarlton. Some recall learning to dive with him and mention diving in Matapouri Bay and off the Poor Knights Islands in Northland. Others discuss commercial diving with Tarlton, as well as accompanying him on salvage expeditions to find sunken ships such as the 'Tasmania', the 'Elingamite', the 'General Grant' and the failure to find the wreck of the 'Lutine'. They mention his Museum of Shipwrecks aboard the restored sailing ship 'Tui' in Paihia. Interviewees also talk about Tarlton's hard work in building and stocking his Underwater World (now Sea Life) aquarium in Auckland. They comment on his early death. Interviewees are: Quentin Bennett, Malcolm Blair, Willy Bullock, Robert Davy, John Dearling, John Gallagher, David Moran, Peter and Phillipa Pettigrew, John Pettit, Patrick and Diane Ryan, Fiona Tarlton, Mia Nicole Tarlton, Rosemary Tarlton. Bibliography - 'Throw me the wreck, Johnny: Memories of Kelly Tarlton, the man behind the legend' by Steve Locker-Lampson was published in 1996 by Halcyon Press, Auckland. Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-024486 - OHC-024499 Abstracts: OHA-8087 - OHA-8099 The interviews were carried out by Locker-Lampson as part of his research for a biography of Kelly Tarlton. Quantity: 14 C90 cassette(s). 13 printed abstract(s). 13 interview(s). Search dates: 1995 - 1996