RNZN Harbour Defence Motor Launch Q1189 was one of 16 Harbour Defence Launches commissioned between 1943 and 1944. Laid up in 1947 and sold to Alec Black of Dunedin, who converted it for charter work. The 'Alert' was used as a research vessel, taking scientists to the southern islands and the southern ocean. In the 1960s owned by Sir Ernest Davis, mayor of Auckland. Later used for deer recovery in Fiordland, and has remained around Bluff and Fiordland since. In 2018 owned by Linus Fleming.
Alert (Launch)
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Salmon album 12
Date: [Between 1940 and 1954]
From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints
By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999
Reference: PA1-q-208
Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1940 and 1954. The sequence of images is not chronological. Slip attached to spine reads: Trips - Bold Peak, 1943, Mt. Arthur tbld, Marlb. Sounds, Mt. Algidus, 1946, Honeymoon, 1948. 7th Pacific Sc. Congress. West Coast. The album opens with views taken on a trip to the West Coast in January 1954; followed by a West Coast museum trip, February 1940; a Neslson-Westhaven expedition, November 1952; John and Pam Salmon's honeymoon in the South Island in December 1948; and a trip to Mt. Algidus, February 1946. The next trips in the album were the Mt. Arthur tableland museum expedition, February 1946, and again in February 1948; the Bold Peak district, February 1943; trip around the Sounds on "The Alert", August 1948; air trip over the Sounds in April 1949; and then the South Pacific Science Congress, Auckland-Christchurch, February 1949. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm
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Illustrations for 'Three Islands' by Lorna Rowland
Date: 1940s
From: Rowland, Lorna Waring, 1908-1988: Papers and photographs
Reference: PAColl-2552-06
Description: Photographs, some probably taken by Lorna Rowland, to illustrate articles on New Zealand she wrote for the 'New Zealand Freelance' in the 1950s. Photographs are numbered, although the sequence is not complete, and some are inscribed on the back. They include images taken on Stewart Island/Rakiura, Tia Island, and in the North and South Islands of people, landscapes, and buildings. Most of the images of people are in rural settings and include a group of men "wild goose hunting", two deerstalkers, Roy Traill on Stewart Island/Rakiura, and Tom Bragg on Tia Island with kelp drying for pōhā (kelp bags for food). Also includes a photograph of Lorna Rowland on board the 'Alert' (Harbour Defence Motor Launch), possibly at Dusky Sound. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Originally in a box labelled "Illustrations for Three Islands by Lorna Rowland." Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographic prints, many with annotations on reverse.
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Photographs of New Zealand
Date: 1940s-1979
From: Rowland, Lorna Waring, 1908-1988: Papers and photographs
By: Dominion (Newspaper); New Zealand free lance (Newspaper)
Reference: PAColl-2552-08
Description: Photographs, some taken by Lorna Rowland and some by other photographers, in New Zealand in the 1940s and 1950s. Includes photographs of the Harbour Defence Motor Launch 'Alert' in Dusky Sound; views of French Pass township from the water, Elaine Bay, French Pass lighthouse, and the road between French Pass and Nelson taken from the saddle between Elaine Bay and Squally Cove; French Pass lighthouse; a deerstalkers' hut; the Hermitage; the jetty at Stewart Island; the 'Pamir' (photographed in 1947) and signed by its Master H S [Horace Stanley] Collier; a museum exhibit of a black shag; two photographs of the Dunstan Hotel, Clyde; and a 1979 Forest Service photograph of Hoffmans Dam at Naseby taken by Grant L Bulling. It is possible that some of these photographs were illustrations for articles as some of them are marked up as for publication; some have inscriptions. Some photographs are very similar to those taken for Rowland's "Three Islands" articles in 'The Freelance'. See Library reference PAColl-2552-06. Negatives of some prints at are Library references 1/4-132619, 1/4-132621, 1/4/132653, and 1/4-132718. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 24 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
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Scientific expedition to the Chatham Islands
Date: 1954. 1984
From: Dawson, Elliot Watson, 1930- :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9897-3
Description: Scientific expedition to the Chatham Islands in 1954. This includes - `Alert' aproaching unidentified islands (possibly The Sisters) with cliffs rising sheer from the sea. Detailed views of the rock structure of the cliffs. Thick fringes of kelp just above the sea line. Members of the team landing by boat to examine a colony of sea birds. Seal colony on ledges below the cliffs. Fields of kelp. Seabirds including Bullers Mollymawk identified as being on The Sisters. Shellfish on rocks. Seaweeds. Large daisy plant. Interior views of Macropiper scrub. Fossil bed at Titirangi on Chatham Island. Photocopy of the scientific team on the `Alert.' Colour print of a small eel-like fish. Colour prints of Marine animals for Murray Scholfield, 1984. This expedition to the Chatham Islands in 1954 included many notable New Zealand scientists. Members of the team were - John Yaldwyn (zoologist and later Director of the National Museum of New Zealand). Richard Kenneth Dell (marine biologist and later director of the Dominion Museum). George Alexander Knox (marine scientist and Professor of Zoology at Canterbury University). David McNiven Garner (who became a research physicist and physical oceanographer working in New Zealand and Canada). Raymond (Ray) Robert Forster (has been described as New Zealand's greatest ever arachnologist). Elizabeth Joan Batham (marine biologist). Daphne Marshall (speciality not known). John Mun Moreland (marine ichthyologist who worked at Whanganui Museum). R J (John) McIntyre (speciality not known). Elliot Watson Dawson (Oceanographer). A Black (specialty not known). Most of the photographs were taken by John Moreland, A Black, and Elizabeth Batham. A few photographs were taken by George Knox and Elliot Dawson. Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 colour original photographic print(s). 1 photocopy/ies.
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Scientific expedition to the Chatham Islands
Date: 1954
From: Dawson, Elliot Watson, 1930- :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9897-2
Description: Scientific expedition to the Chatham Islands in 1954. This includes - Photographs of the fishing vessel, `Alert,' used by the Expedition. Views of the Chatham Islands. These include - Waitangi from across the bay. Waitangi wharves. Hotel at Waitangi. Coastal views of Chatham Islands showing daisy forest. Land forms. coastal vegitation. Beaches. Horses hauling the expedition's boat. Members of the expedition at South East Island. Large group of prints showing members of the expedition on the `Alert' trawling for specimens in the ocean. Scientists examining specimens. Photographs of individual members of the expedition This expedition to the Chatham Islands in 1954 included many notable New Zealand scientists. Members of the team were - John Yaldwyn (zoologist and later Director of the National Museum of New Zealand). Richard Kenneth Dell (marine biologist and later director of the Dominion Museum). George Alexander Knox (marine scientist and Professor of Zoology at Canterbury University). David McNiven Garner (who became a research physicist and physical oceanographer working in New Zealand and Canada). Raymond (Ray) Robert Forster (has been described as New Zealand's greatest ever arachnologist). Elizabeth Joan Batham (marine biologist). Daphne Marshall (speciality not known). John Mun Moreland (marine ichthyologist who worked at Whanganui Museum). R J (John) McIntyre (speciality not known). Elliot Watson Dawson (Oceanographer). A Black (specialty not known). Most of the photographs were taken by John Moreland, A Black, and Elizabeth Batham. A few photographs were taken by George Knox and Elliot Dawson. Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s).
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The 'Alert'
Date: 1940s
From: Rowland, Lorna Waring, 1908-1988: Papers and photographs
Reference: 1/4-132707-F
Description: A print from this negative is at Library reference PAColl-2552-06-21. Title taken from list at Library reference MS-Papers-12355-2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
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Lorna Rowland on the 'Alert'
Date: 1940s
From: Rowland, Lorna Waring, 1908-1988: Papers and photographs
Reference: 1/4-132712-F
Description: A print from this negative is at Library reference PAColl-2552-06-20. Title taken from list at Library reference MS-Papers-12355-2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).