Steel screw steam tug boat built 1919, by Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley, Scotland. Ex British naval vessel (St Boniface original name), Owned by Wellington Harbour Board and renamed 'Toia' from circa 1925, working in Wellington Harbour in 1940s on rescue and escort. Requistioned by the Royal New Zealand Navy during World War Two; returned in 1947. Sold for demolition in 1955, broken up in 1956.
Toia (Tugboat)
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Meyer, Robert John 1921-1990 : Photograph of the SS Cobar
Date: ca 1946
By: Meyer, Robert John, 1921-1990
Reference: PAColl-4514
Description: SS Cobar leaving the Overseas Terminal with Mount Victoria in the background. The tug boat Toia is still moored at the terminal. Photographer was R J Meyer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
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Members of the Seafarers Union picketing, Queens Wharf, Wellington - Photographs taken ...
Date: 12 August 1993
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-
Reference: EP/1993/2836-F
Description: Picketers from the Seafarers Union at Queens Wharf, Wellington. Photographs taken 12 August 1993 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Negative, 35mm
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Negatives of Rangatira berthed in Wellington after striking Karori rock in 1936
Date: 1936, 1944
From: Burt, William Beverland, 1912-1992: Photographs, chiefly relating to the Chatham Islands
Reference: PAColl-1579
Description: Three negatives of Rangatira berthed in Wellington after striking Karori rock in 1936 and two photographs of Tug Toia with M[otor] V[essel] Port Waikato in tow from Chathams, 1944. Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s).
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Oil bunkering barge Shell and tug Toia, Wellington
Date: 12 Jan 1932
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 1/2-016271-G
Description: Oil bunkering barge 'Shell' and tugboat 'Toia', berthed at a wharf in Wellington, 12 January 1932. Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
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Oil bunkering barge Shell and tug Toia, Wellington
Date: 12 Jan 1932
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 1/2-016269-G
Description: Oil bunkering barge 'Shell' and tugboat 'Toia', berthed at a wharf in Wellington, 12 January 1932. Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative