Whaling - New Zealand - Marlborough Region
Barrett, Richard, 1807-1847 : Letter to his brother
Date: 6 Nov 1841
By: Barrett, Richard, 1807-1847
Reference: MS-Papers-1183
Description: Written from Port Nicholson, Barrett describes his family and life while living at Mt Egmont, Taranaki and whaling in Queen Charlotte Sound; also mentions arrival of the `Tory', his hotel and whaling in New Plymouth Richard Barrett was early Wellington publican Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pages on 1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Contemporary copy of letter, possibly by brother (noted as received 31 Mar 1842)
Barrett, Richard, d 1847 : Letter to his brother / transcribed by Marsha Donaldson
Date: 6 Nov 1841 (transcribed 2006)
From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection
By: Barrett, Richard, 1807-1847
Reference: MS-Papers-8681
Description: Letter to his brother, written from Port Nicholson, 6 Nov 1841, giving details of his life since he arrived in New Zealand, ca 1830. Transcribed by Marsha Donaldson, with footnotes relating to Richard Barrett's three daughters Accompanying material - Photocopy of original letter (MS-Papers-1183) and pages from DNZB Vol 1 (Richard Barrett) Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript, mss, printed matter (some photocopies)
Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Whaling in Tory Channel today. ca 1959-1960]
Date: 1959 - 1960
From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Whaling in early New Zealand", by A W Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]
Reference: A-407-017
Description: Illustration shows a speedboat in the foreground, with a man standing by a mounted harpoon in its prow. In the left distance is a similar baot, and two whales swimming in the water. The illustration was made in preparation for "Whaling in early New Zealand", Reed Publishing Ltd, 1960. Supplied title is taken from that of the corresponding image in the book "Whaling in early New Zealand". Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on card, 378 x 270 mm.
Log of Tuscaloosa in Cloudy Bay
Date: 1836-1837
From: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0047-54
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: 25 pages
Tory Channel whaling station at close of whaling season
Date: 11 Aug 1951
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Richards, Robert Samuel, active 1951
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-148-044
Description: Original caption reads "Whaling season closes. The Tory Channel whaling party has ceased operations for the year with a tally of 111 whales as against last season's catch of 79. Left: general view of factory and moored whales with oil store on left and boiling-down facilities in centre". Photograph taken 11 August 1951 by Robert Samuel Richards of Picton. Published in New Zealand Free Lance, 29 august 1951, p 28. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - P 29/8/51; Verso - top centre - End of whaling season. View of factory and moored whale. Oil store on left, boiling down in centre, bone treatment on right (sorry I can't send a sample of the smell). Photographically the place stinks too. Shocking light here as it is on the wrong side of Tory Channel.; Verso - bottom centre - 11/8/51 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.5 x 21.3 cm
Whalers, Kaikoura
Date: [ca 1910]
Reference: 1/2-052153-F
Description: Whalers, Kaikoura, circa 1910. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: On original print - bottom : The two whales just before cutting in Relationship complexity - Same image as 1/2-022937 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).
Tory Channel whaling station at close of whaling season
Date: 11 Aug 1951
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Richards, Robert Samuel, active 1951
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-148-045
Description: Original caption reads "Whaling season closes. The Tory Channel whaling party has ceased operations for the year with a tally of 111 whales as against last season's catch of 79.... Right: a whale being cut up while, at right, whalebone is hauled up to the mill. The longest whale captured this season measured 50ft.; average weight of a whale is one ton to a foot". Photograph taken 11 August 1951 by Robert Samuel Richards of Picton. Published in New Zealand Free Lance, 29 August 1951, p 28. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - P 29/8/51; Verso - top centre - End of whaling season.; Verso - centre - Bone going up to mill on right.; Verso - bottom centre - 11/8/51 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.5 x 21.4 cm
Journal and log of officer aboard HMSS Conway, Hyacinth and Acteon
Date: 1836-1845
Reference: qMS-1080
Description: Entries begin Nov 1836 on Conway in England; describes voyage to East Indies Station via South Africa, Madras, Rangoon, King Island (Bass Strait) and Port Jackson, NSW; in Sep 1837 Conway visited whaling settlements at Kapiti and Cloudy Bay, cruised via NSW, Tasmania, Tonga and Fiji to Rangoon, 1839; entries for Hyacinth voyage 1841-1842 based in Hong Kong, then entries for Acteon in 1843. Journal includes notes on social, economic and political affairs, bearings, weather and sightings on voyages made; also comments on interaction between Maori and whalers, intermarriage, European justice and barter trade Source of title - Supplied Writer unidentified. Served on HMS Conway, transferred to Hyacinth in 1841, and then to Acteon in 1843 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 120 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (photocopy) (35 cm; blue buckram)
Journal of his whaling experiences near Tory Channel
Date: Jun-Jul 1927
From: Vosseler, Frederick William 1878-1959 : Miscellaneous papers, including references to the gold discovery at Terawhiti, the history of Wellington and whaling at Marlborough
Reference: MS-Papers-0192-4
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume).
Extracts from Sydney newspapers re whalers in Cloudy Bay
Date: 1834-1837
From: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0047-53
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
The Tuatea entering Tory Channel with a harpooned whale lashed on each side
Date: 12 July 1954
By: Argosy Studio
Reference: 1/2-068841-F
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Humpback whale being processed at J A Perano's factory in Tory Channel
Date: 1 June 1953
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP-Zoology-Whales-02
Description: Whale steak being striped from the carcass of an Humpback whale by staff at J A Perano's factory in Tory Channel. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on Sunday the 1st of June 1953. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 24.2 x 18.5 cm
Man whaling with a harpoon gun, Tory Channel
Date: [ca 1940s]
From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
By: McDonald, Hector Alfred Farmer William, 1901-1960
Reference: MNZ-0058-1/4-F
Description: Man whaling with a harpoon gun in the Tory Channel. Photograph taken circa 1940 by H Farmer McDonald for the Weekly News. Caption on back of file print reads: "Fighting whales with the most modern equipment demands great skill in the operation of the harpoon gun. Here is a gunner taking aim." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Fox, William 1812-1893 :Guards Bay. Jan. 1848
Date: 1848
By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: B-113-015
Description: The grave of Rangiawa (Kuika) wife of Mr Wynen, in the foreground, in bush, looking down into the cleared area of a small bay (Kakapo Bay, where whaler Jacky Guard lived) with several houses, hills opposite, in Port Underwood. On the face of the painting at the top, is "No. 271", with the N Z Company stamp, which is dated "14 July [18]48". Title is taken from verso Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. The Hocken Library has another version of this view, titled Port Underwood with Jacky Guard's house. A note has been added underneath the painting (probably by Dr Hocken): Jack Guard was the pilot of the 'Pelorus' and carried on business as a whaler and sealer. He was the first [Pakeha] to enter the south eastern mouth of the channel being driven in by a gale in 1827. Grave of Rangiawa (Kuika) native wife of Mr Wynen who with her infant son was found murdered at Cloudy Bay on the 20th Dec. 1842. The indignation of the Maoris at the acquittal of the white man who was supposed to be guilty of the murder is regarded as one of the indirect causes leading to the Wairau Massacre. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 342 mm Provenance: Purchased with other New Zealand Company material by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.
Whaling station, Tory Channel
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: 10x8-0427-G
Description: Scene in the Tory Channel area showing a group of people at a whaling station on the right. A ship is on the water on the left. Taken by the Tyree Brothers. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Whaling station, Tory Channel. Tyree 1440 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Whale on ramp at Whaling Station, Tory Channel - Photograph taken by Argosy Studio
Date: [ca 12 Jul 1954]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Argosy Studio
Reference: PAColl-8163-25
Description: Photograph of a dead humpback whale lying on the ramp of the whaling station at Tory Channel in Malborough. Shows the buildings of the station at the water's edge, and a man looking on from a ramp in the background. Photograph taken in September 1954, by Argosy Studios for the Free Lance. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Published 21 Jul 1954 page 28 [publication stamp]; Verso - centre - A whale weighing about 50 tons is hauled up the Ramp at the Whaling Station, Tory Channel [attached slip]; Verso - bottom right - right 10 3/4 x 4 12/7/54; Verso - bottom left - Photo Copyright By / Argosy Studio / Picton / No 4928 [photographer's stamp] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.6 x 16.8 cm
Whaling, Tory Channel
Date: [ca 1920s]
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-046854-G
Description: Whaling in the Tory Channel, circa 1920s. Boats and men unidentified. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Whalers at Te Awaite
Date: [ca 1900]
From: Williams, Kathleen Sheila, 1939- :Photographs
By: Feeny, P H, active 1900
Reference: PAColl-0435-1
Description: Whalers at Te Awaite, circa 1900. The boat second from the front is the Swiftsure. Photograph taken P H Feeny of Picton. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - beneath image - Whalers - Te Awaite Same image at 1/2-031356 and 1/2-027003 The Swiftsure is now at the Canterbury Museum Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Humpback whale being processed at J A Perano's factory in Tory Channel
Date: 1 June 1953
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP-Zoology-Whales-01
Description: An Humpback whale being laid open by staff at J A Perano's factory in Tory Channel. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on Sunday the 1st of June 1953. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 24.2 x 18.5 cm
Bright, Patricia, fl 2006 :Photographs of Te Awaiti, Tory Channel
Date: 18 February 2006, 25 October 2006
By: Bright, Patricia, active 2006
Reference: PADL-000150
Description: Photographs of Te Awaiti, Tory Channel, taken mid to late 2006 by Patricia Bright. Includes photographs of Te Awaiti Bay, remnants of buildings and whaling pots, graves, and discoloured earth on the beach. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Original order maintained Quantity: 8 megabyte(s). 10 digital photograph(s).