GMV 'Aranui' was a New Zealand Railways Department's rail-road ferry vessel and sister ship to the 'Aramoana'. The 4500 ton vessel was launched at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, on 26 June 1965, built by Messrs Vickers Armstrong Limited. The 'Aranui' had a maximum speed of more than 19 knots at full power.
Laid up at Wellington in June 1984 and sold to Saudi Arabia for ferry service on the Red Sea. Broken up in Singapore in 1994.
Date: [ca 1950s-1970s]
From: Edwards, Muriel, 1907-1981: Slides taken around New Zealand
Reference: PA12-11710
Description: Slides taken by Muriel Edwards circa 1960s, some dated 1968. Images show people, buildings, vehincles, scenery, and tourist sites. Featuring the Aranui Ferry, Erewhon Merino Stud, construction of a bridge over the Avon River, and a car transporter. Locations include Picton, Renwick, Elaine Bay, Lake Moeraki, Kingston, Wairau Valley, and Milford. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies with handwritten captions on stickers adhered to mounts.
Date: [ca 1960s]
From: Edwards, Muriel, 1907-1981: Slides taken around New Zealand
Reference: PA12-11709
Description: Slides taken by Muriel Edwards circa 1960s, some dated 1966 and some dated 1968. Several images are captioned "Hawdon Valley trip" and "Hawden Valley trip". Images show people, buildings, scenery, tourist sites, and vehicles. Featuring New Zealand Railways buses, the Aranui Ferry and the Mangarakau Store. Locations include Blenheim, Picton, Wanaka, and the Lower Shotover Bridge. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies with handwritten captions on stickers adhered to mounts.
Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]
From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs
By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992
Reference: PAColl-9528-2
Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy. Includes photographs of Wellington Harbour Board buildings and vessels, United Kingdom trip in 1980, and photographs of friends, pets and various artistic photographs. Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 colour original photographic print(s).
Date: 3 September 1974
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1974/4911-F
Description: Cook Strait ferries Aratika (in harbour), Arahanga (left foreground), Aramoana (centre foreground), and Aranui (right, at Aotea Quay) in Wellington Harbour. Shows Ferry Terminal and Aotea Quay. Photographs taken 22 August 1974 by an Evening Post staff photographer. The Aratika had just arrived in Wellington after undergoing repairs in Auckland, after a fire on her maiden voyage from France Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
From: Scales, Sid, 1916-2003 :[Political cartoons featuring Robert Muldoon and the Muldoon era. Published in the Otago Daily Times, 1977]
Reference: A-319-050
Description: Comments on recent news items, including Muldoon's continuing opposition to boycotting racist tours, which includes a quote from then-Commonwealth Secretary General Ramphal, suggesting New Zealand's 'lonely position'; the rise of domestic electricity by 37.5%; and that seamen refused to sail the ferry 'Aranui' because their mattresses were too big for their bunks Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Sid Scales Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper, 280 x 380 mm Provenance: Donated by Sid Scales in 1998
Date: 1970
From: New Zealand Shipowners' Federation: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-11367-073
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: 1970
From: New Zealand Seafarers' Union : Records
Reference: fMS-Papers-7178-3
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: 1970
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-61/08
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: 1971
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-38/21
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Date: [ca 24 May 1983]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-
Reference: EP/1983/1925A-F
Description: Photographs of Cook Strait ferry the 'Aranui' in high seas, taken ca 24 May 1983 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Date: 1973-1983
From: New Zealand Seafarers' Union : Records
Reference: 87-148-50/03
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Date: [ca 1970-1980]
From: Federated Cooks and Stewards of New Zealand : Records
Reference: 90-056-01/01
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: 1970
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-63/5
Description: Telegrams, correspondence, newspaper clippings and related papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: [ca 1970-1980]
From: Federated Cooks and Stewards of New Zealand : Records
Reference: 90-056-01/02
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: 1963-1971
From: New Zealand Seafarers' Union : Records
Reference: 87-148-30/15
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: 1983-1984
From: New Zealand Seafarers' Union : Records
Reference: 87-148-50/02
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Date: 1972-1974
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-50/11
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: 14 June 1972
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1972/2906/13A-F
Description: Photograph of Cook Strait ferry the 'Aranui' heading to Picton in high seas, taken 14 June 1972 by an Evening Post staff photographer Caption - Original Evening Post caption reads: 'Only the hardiest travellers were taking deep breaths of sea air on the Aranui as it went out the heads like this today. The rest were probably hardly daring to breathe at all. Bad as it was around town, it was still more fun walking that heading out into that 50mph southerly that hit with gusts of 58mph and a top blast of 62mph between 10am and noon. And Picton was still an awful number of lurches away for the 93 passengers aboard.' Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual image on a 35mm strip.
Date: [ca 1966]
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-69356-F
Description: Aerial view of Picton and surroundings, New Zealand. Included are Picton Harbour, Kaipupu Point, a corner of shakespear Bay, and the hill behind the town. Photographed by Whites Aviation in about 1966. The ship `Aranui' and the date that it came into service identified by a library client, October 2010. The date on the Whites Aviation negative and file print is May 1951. A client has pointed out that this cannot be correct as the ship in the harbour is the inter island ferry `Aranui' which did not come into service until 1966. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative. 13.3 x 11.2 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation box Blue 381, Picton.
Date: 1970
From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Joye Taylor. ca 1905-1915].
By: A H & A W Reed (Firm)
Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-4-048-3
Description: Shows a colour photograph of the ferry "Aranui" at sea. Gives details of the ships specifications and construction. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 101 x 152 mm.