Lioness (Paddle steamer)

Date: 1866

Reference: G-302

Description: Shows the funnel of the paddle steamer Lioness which grounded when towing the schooner. Tow line entangled in paddle floats and severed. Typed label removed 1985: "Pencilled on the back of this painting are the words:- "Loss of schooner on the West Coast of New Zealand caused by breaking of a tow rope -- from a sketch taken on the spot. See 'Crossing the Bar'." Identified at N.Z. High Commision, London, in March 1973 as the schooner William and Mary, wrecked near Greymouth on January 9, 1866. See publication "Shipwrecks - New Zealand Disasters, 1795-1936, by Chas W.N. Ingram & P. Owen Wheatley (Dunedin, 1936) p.125. Label on verso now removed Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil in period frame 150 x 280 mm Provenance: Purchase: Mr R.B. Best, Coventry, England, 1974

Date: 1866

Reference: 1/2-054149-F

Description: The steam ship "William Misken" and the paddlesteamer tug " Lioness", ashore at Hokitika. Taken in 1866. Both vessels were later wrecked, the "William Misken" at Timaru, 4 February 1868 and the "Lioness" at Greymouth, 1 September 1882. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1862 - 1870

By: Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878

Reference: D-002-015

Description: Shows the port of Melbourne full of ships. Pencilled MS notes name ships, landmarks etc Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - on a barrel, floating in the harbour: W F E Liardet delt. 1862. Also ship names inscribed in ink along the base of the image below the name of the relevant ship One of the ships is described as the Donald McKey. This is correctly Donald McKay. The ship names are hand-written below the image Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone 520 x 1000 mm (Severely damaged with sections missing, especially in the sky area)

Date: 1865 - 1875

By: Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878

Reference: B-035-019

Description: View of the Hokitika Bar from the north bank looking south, with shipwrecks, a paddle steamer, jetty and sheds in the foreground, Mount Cook in the distance On the verso, a note in ink by the artist, two small drawings in pencil of possibly the same large two-storied house seen from different angles, pencil notes in another hand 'By W. F. Evelyn Liardet' and '?1870 c' A visitor to the Library on 10 September 2013 suggested that the paddle-steamer in the view was the 'Lioness' captained by George Whitford, a relation by marriage to the artist. The ship's name is not visible on the watercolour. The paddle-steamer Lioness, a similar-looking vessel, with its name visible on its starboard side, appears in a lithograph by Liardet 'View of the North Shore, Port of Melbourne, 1862' (Ref D-002-015) on the right, in the foreground. Mount Cook / Aoraki had a height of 12,349 feet, not 14,000 feet at the time this view was painted. Other Titles - Hokitika Inscriptions: Verso - View of Hokatiki Entrance to the River Hokatiki. Distant view of Mt Cook 40 m from coast, 30 m from Hokatiki, 14000 F, seen 100 m on clear day. S. spit dirty gray colour headland of the shore timbered opposite side of the low land densely timbered. Mt Cook gully steep and hazy. The ocean rolls in with fearful surges and has carried away great parts of the township always in danger. The black birch timber grows [text ends here. In ink, in the hand of the artist] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 175 x 250 mm