Tahiti (Ship : 1904-1930)

Date: 1912

By: Barnes, Frank, 1859-1941

Reference: G-383

Description: A broadside view of a steamship in a heavy sea. Sinclair Head can be seen in the distance to the right Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date; also signature lower right, both in brushpoint Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil 508 x 762 mm

Date: 1916-1919

By: Parmenter, Henry Edley, 1891-1984

Reference: MSX-6878

Description: Item comprises four file boxes containing black and white photographic prints of the 366 pages of the diary. Original at MS-1760. Parmenter describes camp life, service in main offensives and leave in England; he returned to NZ 1919 on SS `Pakeha' Source of title - Supplied Parmenter was a sergeant with the Signals Division of NZ Engineers and sailed on the SS `Tahiti' for the Western Front and training in Egypt en route Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photographs

Date: June - October 1917

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-o-1393

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui (HMNZT 86) on following voyages: Wellington to Plymouth, England, with 26th Reinforcements. Left Wellington 13 June 1917, called at Albany WA (22-23 June), Cape Town (11-18 July), Free Town (31 July - 3 August), arrived Plymouth 15 August 1917. Plymouth, England to Port Chalmers. Left Plymouth 30 August 1917, called at Cape Town (19-22 September), arrived Port Chalmers 12 October 1917. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound album with green morrocco spine and corners, 24 x 19 cm

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

From: Hird, Edward James, 1924-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7754-1

Description: Photographs by Edward James Hird. Includes photographs from travels in Hawaii, Canada, United States, Fiji, and Norfolk Island. Also includes postcards, some delivered to Mrs Hind of Raetihi. Quantity: 93 b&w original photographic print(s). 13 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

Date: Between 1917 and 1924

From: Firth, Pauline J, fl 1977 :Photograph albums of New Zealand and of World War I

By: Whitaker, Arthur, active 1916-1940?

Reference: PA1-o-176

Description: Album with images of New Zealanders travelling to Europe on transport ships during World War I, including storms at sea; ship-board sports; the coaling station at Cristobels, Colon, Panama; the Panama Canal. Later views show members of the Star Boating Club in Wellington. Photographs taken by Arthur Whitaker. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover entitled `Photographs'; 16 x 21 cm

Date: 1914-1917, 1992

By: Kitson family

Reference: MS-Group-2082

Description: Contains original letters and diary of Henry Kitson from WW1. The letters and diary both include accounts of the sea voyage from New Zealand and mililitary duties and conditions, the Gallipoli landing of April 1915 and subsequent fighting and his experiences of his recuperation in military hospitals. Also includes annotated original photographic prints, and postcards relating to WW1, and a spiral bound book of the letters and diary transcribed and edited by Helen, daughter in law of Henry in 1992. This spiral bound book is probably the same as MS-Papers-4540. Henry Kitson left New Zealand in February 1915 aboard the Tahiti, he saw action in the Gallipolli Campaign with the 1st Canterbury Regiment before being injured in June 1915 and transported, first to Floriana Hospital in Malta, then to various military hospitals in England including Woodcote Camp in Epsom, Hyde Park Hospital in Plymouth and Walton on Thames. He was discharged from hospital in February 1917 and joined the 37th Reinforcement in 1918, he served as a Warrant Officer at the battles of Bapaume, Biefrillers, Cambrai and Le Quesnoy. Quantity: 6 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Mrs H M Kitson, daughter in law of Henry Kitson, Christchurch, 2012

Date: [ca 1923-1942]

From: Comrie, William James (Very Rev), 1860-1945 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0011-17A

Description: Topics include: Gold from `Niagara'; Roads, etc mainly Wellington; Railway from Pokeno to Paeroa, 1937; Towns and roads, etc; Murchison earthquake, 1929; Loss of `Manuka', and `Tahiti' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1914-1917

By: Dalrymple, Roy Walter Ogilvie, 1891-1951

Reference: MS-Group-1933

Description: Comprises diaries and letters written while on active service during World War One. They contain descriptions of Trentham Camp, the voyage to Egypt aboard the troop ship `Tahiti', arriving in Egypt, Dec 1914, fighting in the Gallipoli Campaign with the Wellington Regiment until Aug 1915 when he was hospitalised in England, joining the New Zealand Artillery on the Western Front in Oct 1916 where he saw action until being invalided to England in Aug 1917 Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - A commentary on the contents of these letters and diaries is located at MS-Papers-6893 Farmer from Bulls, Rangitikei Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s) positive. 13 Electronic document(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (digital copies) Processing information: Originals loaned for copying as part of the Adam Matthew-funded World War I digitisation project. The Library already had a microfilm copy. Note that the microfilm and digital copies do not exactly match, as the material provided for copying differed at each time.

Date: [Circa 1914-1919]

By: Stevenson, Audrey, active 1976

Reference: PA1-o-480

Description: Photographs relating to New Zealand soldiers during the first World War. The first section shows men embarking on the troopship Willochra, horses being transported on the troopship Tahiti; and shipboard life. The next scenes are in Colombo, with barges bringing coal to the ship; and arrival in Bombay with workmen hauling the ship into dock and unloading horses. Three images show German biplanes abandoned, and some scrapped in the area of Mauberge [i.e. Maubeuge]; then AA guns abandoned by the Germans at Keumiee. Several views of bridges over the Rhine, including a group of three New Zealand soldiers on horseback crossing one of the bridges; also several scenes of bridges in Bonn, some showing two NZ soldiers. Other places include snapshots of Cologne and Refrath. Several photographs at the end of the album show NZ soldiers including "a party of visitors"; four men identified as Thornton, George, Rae, and Angus; and a group of 8 men outside a buidling "Christmas in Germany". The final two images show the Prince of Wales, "Visits, shooting match". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entitled "From my camera" in gold lettering; 15 x 11 cm

Date: 11 Feb-13 May 1912

From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers

Reference: MSX-7860

Description: Diary, in the form of letters home, by Siegfried Eichelbaum on a voyage on SS `Aorangi' to San Francisco via Tahiti, and back on the RMS `Tahiti. Describes and comments on passengers, events on the voyage, the stop-over in Tahiti, San Francisco. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1916-1919

By: Parmenter, Henry Edley, 1891-1984

Reference: MS-1760

Description: Parmenter describes camp life, service in main offensives and leave in England; he returned to NZ 1919 on SS `Pakeha'. Item MSX-6878 contains a complete photographic copy of this diary Source of title - Supplied Parmenter was a sergeant with the Signals Division of NZ Engineers and sailed on the SS `Tahiti' for the Western Front and training in Egypt en route Quantity: 1 volume(s) (366 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (15 cm; black calf binding)

Date: ca 1915, 1916, ca1910

By: Watson, Wilfred Nash, 1918-2006

Reference: PAColl-0904

Description: Four stereoscopic photographs of Wellington and the Pelorus Sound and two photographs, one of the Zeebrugge Mole, 1916. Photographs were taken by Mr Watson's (donor) father. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s) (stereoscopic views) and. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: 4 Oct-20 Nov 1921

From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers

Reference: MSX-7861

Description: Dairy and commentary on a voyage taken on RMS `Tahiti' to San Francisco, and from there to Chicago, for business reasons, and back through Vancouver on RMS 'Niagara'. Describes and comments on the voyage, passngers, activities and impressions of Chicago, including Jewish life there, and San Francisco. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 9 Nov 1989 - 09 Nov 1989

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Hingston, Clifford Herbert, 1895-1991

Reference: OHInt-0006/37

Description: Describes briefly family background, education, first work as motor mechanic, move to Wanganui, attemps to enlist, white feathers, being an instructor at Trentham Camp, sailing with 40th Reinforcements in 1917, ports of call, Capetown, Sierra Leone, the epidemic on board the 'Tahiti' described fully, deaths, arrival in United Kingdom of survivors, Larkhill Hospital, becoming a motor engineer instructor in army, return to New Zealand, breaks wrist, activities with RSA, regrets not going to France. Venue - Wanganui Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Hingston's home at 114A Bell Street, Wanganui Accompanying material - Copy of article entitled 'As the 1918 epidemic struck...the incredible voyage', by Percival Gunn McIntosh, unknown source and date [possibly the (Auckland) Weekly News] Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 479. Black and white photograph of Cliff Hingston, 1988

Date: 1965

From: Various artists :Reproductions of ship portraits by W W Stewart and J E Hobbs. 1960s-1970s]

Reference: A-467-025

Description: Shows the 'Tahiti' in open water. Smoke is coming from the chimney. Signed and dated by artist Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, block-mounted, 145 x 230 mm

Date: 10 Jul 1918-21 Jun 1919

From: Smith, David Stanley (Sir), 1888-1982 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11112-035

Description: Folder contains David Smith's diary, which records his experiences during the last six months of the war, when (with the rank of sergeant) he left New Zealand on the troopship `Tahiti', succumbed to an epidemic of influenza en route to Britain, and spent time convalescing in England. Includes entries made during travels in England, Scotland and France after the war ended. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1918

From: Young, Harold Louis, b 1896 or 1897 : Diaries and pay book

Reference: MSX-8830

Description: Diary describes Young's activities in 1918. During the early part of the year he was stationed at several military training camps in New Zealand, including Featherston Camp from where he made several visits to Wellington while he was on leave. On 10 July he sailed from Wellington aboard the troop ship `Tahiti', arriving at Plymouth, England on 18 September. He initially went to Lark Hill Camp, Salisbury and spent the remainder of 1918 at camps in England. As well as training, he describes places he visited while on leave, in particular London. The war ended before Young could be sent to the front in France. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms

Date: [2016]

From: Hoskins, Barbara, active 1941-2015 : Photographs relating to the Philps, Nimmo, and Anton families

Reference: PA1-q-1311

Description: A scrapbook album compiled by Colin Feslier relating to Sidney James Anton. Comprises mainly materials created circa 1918 to circa 1920s which belonged to Anton. First section of the album contains print-outs made by Feslier of online publications and an email relating to Feslier's research into the influenza outbreak on the World War One troop ship HMNZT 'Tahiti' and Feslier's transcription of Anton's Soldiers diary. Second section of the album contains a selection of personal papers which belonged to Sidney James Anton, including papers which he created and that which he accumulated in relation to his war service: handwritten notes, business and visiting cards (some annotated with personal messages to Anton), printed ephemera, newspaper clippings, forms, and certificates. Items of note include: an order for postcards on a business card for "Reginald Haines artist in photography", London; a programme for "New Zealand v South Africa" 28 January 1919; railway warrants for Anton's service leave in the United Kingdom dated March 1919; a New Zealand Expedionary Force pass for Anton dated 16 July 1919; a dance card "Given by New Zealanders resident in Durban to the New Zealand Military Rugby Team 25th August 1919" which is annotated "S J Anton, NZFA"; Leave on discharge certificate dated September 1919; NZR Returned soldiers railway ticket dated October - November 1919; New Zealand Expeditionary Force certificate of discharge; card for the 1st battery NZFA First Annual reunion 13th August 1920; Wellington Returned soldiers Association membership card; Certificate of discharge dated 4th August 1942; Onslow Brass Band Supporters' Club membership card; NZ Military Forces inwards letter regarding application for mufti allowance; and National Service Emergency regulations certificate of enrolment dated 1941. Third section of the album contains a numbered list created by Feslier which gives details about the photographs and some of the papers in the album. The list also refers to addresses. Fourth section of the album contains a selection of black and white photographs and photographic postcards which belonged to Sidney James Anton. Taken by unidentified photographer(s), some probably by Anton. Each photograph has been annotated on the reverse by Feslier with a circled number which corresponds to the numbers on the list in the third section. Many of the photographs and postcards are annotated with messages or descriptions on the reverse, probably by Anton or his family members. Transcriptions made by Feslier of these annotations are included on the list. Image content relates predominantly to Antons' service in World War One. Some images feature Sidney James Anton. Images of note include: Anton and other soldiers in army camp at Featherston and Heretaunga prior to leaving New Zealand; identified gunners on board ship 'Tahiti' (taken before they died onboard); the deck of the HMNZT 'Tahiti' in heavy seas taken a few days out of New Zealand; Anton and other soldiers on leave in South Africa visiting a family; portraits of Anton's sister Etta; Forth Bridge, and soldiers on leave with girls, Edinburgh July 1919; Anton with two donkeys or horses; soldiers onboard the SS 'Hororata' during the return voyage to New Zealand; the SS 'Hororata' itself; town hall, promenade in Durban. Includes several images relating to Anton's social and family life circa World War One and post war: group snapshots including "Etta", "Don", "Babs", "Aggie", and "James" taken in Leith, Haddington, and London; a postcard of "Mother"; friends in costumes in Wellington; Anton and friend at Oriental Parade, and group portraits of "BFC 1924" [Brooklyn Football Club?] and rugby teams taken in the 1920s. Also includes two colour illustrated postcards bearing faint annotations. Arrangement: Items were selected and arranged in the ringbinder by Colin Feslier. The photographic prints and postcards in the third section are in a numeric sequence which corresponds to the numbered paper list in the album. Some numbers are duplicated. There are no photographs which are numbered to match 94, 95, 100, 101, and 102 on the list. The original arrangement of the album has been retained by the Library. Local historian Colin Feslier and donor Barbara Hoskins are both members of the Wellington Southern Bays Historical Society. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 106 b&w original photographic prints and postcards, 2 colour illustrated postcards, various papers and printed ephemera. Physical Description: Black plastic office ringbinder containing plastic sleeves housing print-outs, printed ephemera, and black and white photographs and postcards; 31.5 x 27.5cm Processing information: Each photographic print and postcard in this album has been housed in an individual archival enclosure within the ringbinder album for conservation reasons.

Date: 1912

From: Various artists :[Two New Zealand autograph albums including watercolour landscapes of Auckland. ca 1895 - 1896]

By: Watkin, Eric Arthur, 1895-1961

Reference: E-895-017

Description: Watercolour ship portrait shows the steamship 'Tahiti' in mid-ocean. It has a green hull, and red and black funnel, the colours of the Union Steam Ship Company. Other Titles - February Extended Title - From "Writing album; album for poetry, prose & autographs" (begun 1896), page [17 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour sketch on album page 200 x 250 mm.

Date: [ca 1947-1963]

From: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926-2014: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7271-33

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).