Fishing boats - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PA7-51-28

Description: View of people on the beach at Island Bay. Young children are playing on the sand, or in dinghies and canoes close to the shore. Fishing fleet is at anchor in the bay. Photograph taken by S C Smith in 1920s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Island Bay. Wellington. New Zealand. 890 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 155 x 205 mm

Date: 1975

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook].

Reference: E-480-f-030

Description: Fishing boat and dinghy up on the hard at Island Bay Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 282 x 350 mm

Date: [ca 20 December 1978]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1978/4272

Description: Fleet of Japanese squid boats docked at Aotea Quay, Wellington, before beginning fishing operations off the West Coast of the South Island, taken ca 20 December 1978 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1960-1969

From: Rennie, Hugh :Photographs from the periodical "Focus"

Reference: PAColl-5993-1

Description: Photographs from 1967-1969, showing anti-apartheid and nuclear disarmament demonstrations, cafes and folk singers, Tom Shand MP, and Patrick Flynn. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1917 - 1920

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-269

Description: A view of the harbour, showing a fishing vessel heading towards the docks. Seagulls skim the surface of the water. Pencil sketch, with colour legend noted in places Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Wellington Harbour [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 67 x 265 mm

Date: 14 Dec 1994

From: New Zealand fishing history oral history project

By: Saunders, Alfred Carr, 1911-2010

Reference: OHInt-0444-06

Description: Alfred Saunders born at Point Halswell, Wellington 1911. Recalls his father was an artilleryman in the army, stationed at the Point to look after the large gun there. Talks about growing up on the Miramar Peninsula, Fort Ballance and other forts around the harbour. Also talks about period when father left the army and they moved to Whangaroa where his father took up crayfishing. Recalls leaving school at the age of 15 years and commencing an apprenticeship as a shipwright with B J L Jukes Ltd, a boatbuilder in Balena Bay, Wellington. Describes his duties as an apprentice and explains that many of the boats worked on at the yard belonged to Island Bay and Eastbourne fishermen. Mentions living at Paraparaumu where he built a 40 foot fishing vessel called `May' for a Mr Buckland at Plimmerton during the Great Depression. Refers to his work during World War II, describing some of the vessels he worked on which were commandeered by the navy. After the war went fishing from Paremata and details type of fishing and fish caught. Describes location of his boat yard at Paremata foreshore where he built a number of fishing and pleasure craft. Talks about the Sea Reaper, a vessel of 50 feet in length that he built and operated with his sons during the 1960s. Talks about the crayfish boom at the Chathams and the big demand for vessels. Mentions some of the problems encountered with the Marine Department surveyors and the modern fishing regulations. Talks about son, Harold, who has a boatbuilding business in Tory Channel in the Marlborough Sounds. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Emmanuel Makarios Venue - 54 Paremata Road Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010226-010227 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3415.

Date: 20 Dec 1994

From: New Zealand fishing history oral history project

By: Imlach, James, 1914-1995; Saffioti, Paolo, 1918-

Reference: OHInt-0444-05

Description: James Imlach born in the North of Scotland and came from a family of fishermen for many generations. Recalls that his father, Jimmy Imlach senior, came to New Zealand with his family at the end of World War I, initially working on a cargo ship employed on the cheese run between Patea and Wellington before taking up fishing. Recalls that in 1930, at the age of 16, left school and joined father and Shetland Islander, Tommy Isbister, on the `Southern Cross' which father owned. Paolo Saffioti born in New Zealand. Recalls that father was from Italy and had jumped ship in Auckland, travelling to Wellington where he heard there was an Italian community. Father worked on a coastal cargo ship, the `Canopus' carrying coal, before taking up fishing on one of the Italian boats in Eastbourne, later shifting to Island Bay where he continued fishing, eventually buying his own boat, the `All Black'. Recalls that it was in this vessel that self started fishing career at the age of 14 years during the early 1930s. Jimmy and Paolo worked on the `Southern Cross' and were to work together most of their fishing careers and were neighbours in Island Bay. They recall the types of fishing they were involved in, such as groper and crayfishing, the areas where they fished, type of gear used and the early winches and some of the dangers and accidents using them. They talk about some of the early fish wholesalers and the difficulties in selling their catch, particularly during the Depression. They discuss the Wellington Fishermen's Co-op in which Paolo's father, Santo Saffioti, was a founding member. Talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the Co-op and its demise. Crayfishing from Island Bay during the early 1950s is also discussed. They recall boats that were built at Island Bay and their builders; making of wet weather gear and floats by the women of the fishing community and the slipway near the western entrance to Island Bay which was built and owned by a Mr Cunningham. Jimmy Imlach retired from fishing in 1965 though his sons are still involved in commercial fishing, owning a trawler, `The Rowallen' which works from Wellington. Paolo retired in 1983. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Emmanuel Makarios Venue - 200 The Esplanade, Island Bay, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010224-010225 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3414.

Date: 2008

By: Bleakley, Joe, active 1980-2000s; Angus, Rita, 1908-1970

Reference: Eph-D-FESTIVAL-Wellington-2008-01

Description: Poster featuring an adaptation of a Rita Angus painting of fishing boats at Island Bay, with Christ and his followers in the foreground boat. The boats are flying pennants which represent words, and are waiting to begin a circumnavigation of the Island, which is seen in the background. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print, 595 x 420 mm.

Date: [ca 30 December 1996]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1996/3725-F

Description: Wellington wharf police tow the upturned fishing boat 'Maria Luisa' back to shore after it had collided with the container ship 'Sydney Express'. Photographs taken ca 30 December 1996 by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: 1941

From: Laugesen, Carl Thorwald, 1900-1987 :[Sketchbook. ca 1932-1944]

Reference: E-937-1-025/026

Description: View of Paremata looking out to Porirua Harbour, shown twice as a pencil sketch and a watercolour. Both feature fishing craft in the water, a figure, possibly a fisherman, at the water's edge, and a boathouse in the foreground. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom left - Paremata / C T Laugesen / 41 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on spread pages of sketchbook, 102 x 325 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane, auction 1104, Wellington, 4 April 2012, lot no. 374

Date: [ca 1935-1950]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972 :Photographic prints

Reference: PAColl-9942-5

Description: Includes - Two views of Wellington and Harbour, ca 1950. View of Wellington and Harbour, ca 1935. Fishing boat entering Island Bay on a heavy swell. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-6992

Description: Photographs of Wellington taken ca 1960s by John Ingle. Includes views of construction of the Wellington urban motorway; Massey Memorial; Evans Bay road; upper reaches of the Hutt River; Wahine storm damage at Keith George Park; Wellington city and harbour; groups of Forest & Bird members on walks on Raumati Beach, and the Cross Creek track; fishing boats and the ferry from Island Bay; Paremata coast; painters at Houghton Bay; lifeboat in Wellington Harbour; hut in the Tararuas; the Hall of Memories in the carillon tower; Parliament Buildings and a pathway in the grounds; Petone Settlers Museum; and the Dominion Museum. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1967

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. May-November 1967.

Reference: E-471-f-023

Description: In the foreground are two rowboats and several crayfish pots close to a building on the foreshore at Island Bay. A fishing boat lies at anchor in the distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink 273 x 360 mm

Date: 1893

From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]

By: Lysaght, Emily Muriel, 1875-1971

Reference: B-190-042

Description: A view of the rocky coast at Island Bay, with the snow-capped Kaikouras in the distance. The faint sketch of a fishing boat can be seen on the far left in the harbour The 'S' referred to could be Emily's sister, Sylvia Stowe Inscriptions: Verso - top right - E M Stowe / 1893 [in pencil]; Verso - top left - Island Bay. After S left [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose sketchbook page, 127 x 183 mm

Date: 1927-1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-7122-1/4-G

Description: Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1927-1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-7128-1/4-G

Description: Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1927-1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-7124-1/4-G

Description: Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1927-1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-7129-1/4-G

Description: Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1927-1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-7123-1/4-G

Description: Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1927-1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-7125-1/4-G

Description: Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative