Curacoa HMS (Ship)

Date: 1840-1865

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1050

Description: Comprise Meade's journals on the Esk and Curacao, botanical, biological, meteorological and and scientific observations, sandal wood, and the journal of a tour from Auckland to Taranaki 1849-1850 by Governor Grey Source of title - Transcribed Brenchley first visited the Pacific in 1850 with the French traveller, Jules Remy, during his American tour. He later visited New Zealand in 1864 with Lt Herbert Meade RN, and involved himself in Maori affairs. From Sydney he visited Pacific islands in the Curacoa in 1865 and the Esk in 1866. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1993

Date: [Circa 1892 to 1894]

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Davis, John, -1893

Reference: PA1-o-548

Description: Album collected by Sir Thomas Berry Cusack Smith when British Consul in Samoa in the 1890s. Images taken by Thomas Andrew, John Davis, and unidentified photographers. Includes general scenes of life in Samoa, including the building of a fale (house); harvesting coconuts; fishing; canoes; boat races; and picnic scenes. Two photographs show the bombardment of Luatuanuu in August 1894. Numbers of portraits of people associated with the British Consulate, including various members of the Royal Navy; young European women; Fijian men, including Sir John Thurston, Governor of Fiji; and one of a Solomon Islander in native dress. Other Titles - British Consulate, Samoa Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark grey album, black spine and corners, lettered in gold "British Consulate, Samoa", 25 x 30 cm

Date: 1893

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-1893

Description: Includes: HMS 'Curacoa'. Grand benefit entertainment by the variety company of the above ship. Theatre Royal [Wellington], 26 October 1893. Programme / flier (with Mr E Reid, Lieut Warren, Mr R Denyer, Mr J Slowly, Mr Meiklejohn, Mr W Staples, Mr A Templeton, Messrs Whitmey and Harvey, Mr T Poole, Mr H Edwards) United Brass Bands Association of New Zealand. Third annual contest. Tuam Street Theatre, Christchurch, 9-11 November 1893. Programme (photocopy - original in MS Papers 1784 (Sir John Hall), 200). Quantity: 2 programmes. Physical Description: Letterpress items, varying sizes up to quarto.

Date: 1890

From: [Various artists] :[Illustrations of ships and naval actions]. - London [chiefly Illustrated London news, ca 1850]-1911

By: Wells, Josiah Robert, 1849-1897

Reference: A-248-004

Description: Ten British naval steamships at sea. The image is probably from the Illustrated London news. The ships are all named beneath the image. The ship named on the far right as 'King' may show only part of the name. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 151 x 233 mm

Date: 1835-1854

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster collection and papers / of Kenneth Athol Webster

Reference: MS-Papers-1009-2/51

Description: Consists of: - Letter from B Wooldridge, Stoke, re Pitcairn Island (18 Jun 1849) Extract of a letter from Captain Jones of HMS Curacoa re Pitcairn Island (30 Aug 1841) Letter from George H Nobbs to Rev. Moody, Pitcairn Island (20 Jul 1847) Letter to Rear Admiral G E Hammond from the Admiralty, enclosing copies of letters relating to Pitcairn Island (7 Aug 1835) Letter from George H Nobbs to Rev W T Bullock, Pitcairn Island (9 Oct 1854) Hymn written by Frederick Young of Pitcairn Island (21 Aug 1844) Notes on the nine mutineers who reached Pitcairn Island (23 Aug 1844) Handwriting exercise by Robert Buffett of Pitcairn Island (23 Aug 1844) Letter from F Mason to Rev D Blomfield, re Sandwich Islands, Tahiti and Pitcairn Island (17 Apr 1838) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [1894-1901

By: Eeles, Charles Gerald Sheperd, active 1890s-1900s

Reference: MS-Papers-6514

Description: Comprises photocopies of a paper on Robert Louis Stevenson given by Eeles to the Stoke Library Society in 1901, with transcript by Mr Cox which describes his first meeting with Stevenson in 1892, his feelings about him, their friendship, aspects of the Stevenson family home and of Samoan life; `A Letter to Mr Stevenson's friends' by Lloyd Osbourne, private circulation (1894); a song by Stevenson at Vailima, played and sung by Teuila; a letter to Dorothy from Vailima (1893); song, `Balaklava charge' (1894); and report of Stevenson's death Language - Some hymns used in the `Letter to Mr Stevenson's friends' by Osbourne are in Samoan Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also qMS-1894 for notes on life in Samoa by Robert Louis Stevenson Relationship complexity - Photograph material relating to this accession is held in the Photographic Archive. Eeles was navigating lieutenant on the `Curacoa' which visited Samoa in 1892; he met Robert Louis Stevenson and maintained the connection as well as collecting material about him Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and typescripts (photocopies)

Date: 1829-1885

By: Nobbs, George Hunn (Rev), 1799-1884

Reference: fMS-212-215

Description: Papers concern his teaching and preaching at Pitcairn Island, and his removal with the islanders to Norfolk Island, 1856. Includes letters from prominent Pacific missionaries and others. Also includes Nobbs' The Pitcairn Island Recorder: Remarks made at Pitcairn Island during the visit of HMS Curacoa, 1841, by W Gunn: Account of the Marquesas Islands, by W P Crook: I'm not ashamed, by W Epps: The South Seas, a record of three cruises in the islands, Pt 1, the Marquesas, by R L Stevenson. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 4 volume(s). 0.16 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, printed matter (photocopies) (40 cm; blue buckram hinged lid boxes) Finding Aids: Index to correspondents at the beginning of Vol 1.

Date: 1861-1867

By: Liverpool, Cecil George Savile Foljambe, Viscount Hawkesbury and 1st Earl of, 1846-1907

Reference: Micro-MS-0598

Description: Kept while serving as naval cadet, midshipman and sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy. Logs for Victory, Defence, and Leander, 1861-1863, covers period at Spithead and training cruises, to Scandinavia, Lisbon and Gibralter. Logs for Curacoa cover tour on the Australian station, Apr 1863-Feb 1867, when he travelled round Australia and the Pacific, making several visits to NZ. Logs of Pioneer, Oct-Dec 1863, Avon, Dec 1863-Apr 1864, describe naval activities on the Waikato during the land wars. Some sketches and charts showing tracks of all ship movements Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s) positive. Logs contain many sketches and maps

Date: 1892

By: Gibson, Herbert W S, active 1892

Reference: f-76-102

Description: Comprises letter from H E Maude to I G Turbott, District Officer, Gilbert Islands re request for report by library (1955); enclosure no 2 with sailing orders for HMS Curacoa from the Australian Station from C T M D Scott, Rear-Admiral of the Australian Navy to Gibson; and report by Gibson to Scott with enclosures re visiting particular islands of the Ellice group and declaration of protectorate status (1892) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also `Notes on HMS Curacoa's visit to the Ellice Islands' at 996.8 (note with item) Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (photocopies)

Date: 1886-1897

From: Cusack-Smith, Thomas Berry (Sir), 1859-1929 :Photographs of Samoa

By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939

Reference: PA1-o-545

Description: Album of photographs relating to life in Samoa, particularly associated with the British Consulate, in part taken by Thomas Andrew, and in part probably taken by Thomas Berry Cusack Smith, creator of this collection. Images include portraits of British men and women linked with the consulate (some in fancy dress at dances, or in theatrical performances), one of William Churchill (United States Consul-General in Samoa). Also portraits of Samoans, including several of young Samoan women, King Malietoa, and members of the Vaiala Polo Team (and the British Consulate Polo Team). Two group portraits at the end of the album include Richard John Seddon, his wife Louisa and two daughters, King Malietoa, and the Bishop of Wellington, Frederick Wallis and his wife Margaret. Other Titles - British Consulate, Samoa Thomas Berry Cusack Smith was British Consul in Samoa in the late 1880s until 1898. The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Richard John Seddon, and his party left Wellington on 15th April, 1897, on the the RMSS Alameda to attend the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Their first port of call was Apia, Samoa. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black covered album with gold lettering "British Consulate, Samoa", 25 x 32 cm

Date: 1863-1867

By: Liverpool, Cecil George Savile Foljambe, Viscount Hawkesbury and 1st Earl of, 1846-1907

Reference: MS-Papers-1283

Description: These letters were written while serving as midshipman in HMS Curacoa on the Australian Station. They were family letters writtn to his parents and sisters. Letters include detailed accounts of the Waikato-Tauranga war, mining in Australia and his cruise in the Islands. Many of the ships in port are described in the letters. These have not been noted in the inventory. Foljambe gave a very detailed description of his cruise in the South Sea Islands. He describes the places, people, food, customs, government, implements, houses - everything in fact that a young man with a lively eye and interest might notice. Publication - The letters were privately published in an edited form - `Three years on the Australian station' [London, Hatchard & Co, 1868] Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Drawings and Prints have a sketchbook by Foljambe dated 1868 and probably used on the Mediterranean station, also a painting of HMS Curacoa attributed to him Lord Liverpool saw service on HMS `Curacoa' in New Zealand, Australia and the South Sea Islands Quantity: 3 folder(s) (83 pieces). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory includes list of sketches and maps in the letters. The letters include many lively and interesting sketches and maps. Many of the sketches are reproduced in the book but some of the sketch maps are left out, and the sketches became different in the hands of the engraver, who sacrifices accuracy for the sake of what he regards as a more attractive illustration

Date: [Circa 1860s]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Marvin, William, 1834-1915

Reference: PA1-q-320

Description: Album of photographs taken during the 1860s by various photographers. All the images are related to Colonel William Marvin (1834-1915) who came to New Zealand circa 1858 and was possibly attached to the 70th Regiment of Foot during the New Zealand wars. There are many photographs relating to military activity, including military working parties at Fort Britomart; military and naval camps at Maungatawhiri Creek, Queen's Redoubt, Drury, Ngaruawahia and Albert Barracks; a monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; and the Auckland cemetery. Many of the images are of Auckland, including `Hale's Boarding House, where I first slept in N.Z.'; `The Masonic Hotel where I was made a mason in 1861'; `My last batchelor home near Constitution Hill green, next door to the Dacres'; `St. Mary's where I was married 4th August 1862'; a long sequence showing Queen Street from different angles in 1866'; and various homes that he knew, including Heaphy's house in St George's Bay, Dillon Bell's House in Parnell, and `Little Sutton' in St. George's Bay. Other images of interest include a mining camp at Coromandel; the tree on which Volkner was hanged, with a seated group of Maori beside a whare; a Maori church that is completely thatched, in the Waikato; and two views of the sailing ship Ida Ziegler [i.e. Zeigler] `In which we returned from N.Z. round Cape Horn, 29th Jany to 1st May 1867'. Photographs in England are all related to Tipner Barracks near Portsmouth, and Malpas Cemetery, Newport Monmouthshire. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with albumen prints. Label attached to cover `Pictures of N.Z. (N. Island) & Tipner with captions by Col. Marvin'. Textured black cover; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1865-1895

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-3045

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1864-1868

By: Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873

Reference: MS-2135

Description: A copy of the published item 'The past and present of New Zealand with its prospects for the future. With numerous illustrations'. The book has pencil annotations commenting on and marking parts of the text, it is not clear whose hand the annotations are in. Also inserted into the book are: a manuscript map, sketches, a watercolour, cartes-de-visite sized cards, and albumen photographs. Photographs have been glued into the book or sewn into inserted pages. They are mainly undated. Four images show army officers: Lieutenant Colville, Lieutenant Henry Bally, Major Lloyd, and Captain Close. Other photographs show: two images of Mechanics Bay in Auckland (one with waka), Auckland Harbour, "the Public Park Auckland", a horse and rider about to cross a bridge over a river somewhere near Auckland, and New Plymouth (1866). Also undated photographic portraits of Taranaki leader Te Ua Haumene and Ngati Haua leader Wiremu Te Waharoa. The image of Te Ua Haumene is similar to the one that has been digitised and is available to view at reference number PA2-2533. The image of Wiremu Te Waharoa is similar (but a wider view) than the one that has been digitised and is available to view at reference number 1/2-057295 A pencil sketch, dated 1864 and measuring 245 x 225 mm, shows Auckland Harbour with Rangitoto Island in the background. The Wynyard Pier, houses, trees, people, the ship 'H.M.S Curacoa', the prison hulk 'Marion', and other small vessels are visible. Text on the reverse of the sketch describes the transport of Maori prisoners, captured after the battle of Rangiriri, and their confinement on and escape from Kawau Island. Other sketches measuring 75 x 130 mm are sewn onto pages which have then been added into the book. They show [Maitataua?] redoubt (1866), Waitara river mouth (1865), 'Adam Clarke's village' near Opunake, Taranaki (1865), a view of a mountain [Mount Taranaki?] from Burtons Hill with a forest clearing and church in the foreground (1866), the redoubt at Te Arei (n.d), and [Popoko?] temporary camp of [Capt Corlets?] and of Bush Rangers] (1866). There is also a watercolour of Opunake Redoubt (1865) Attached inside the back cover is a manuscript map showing land between the Mimi River and the settlement of Pukearuhe in Taranaki (1866). A full description and digital copy of this map is available at library reference number MapColl-832.2gbbd/1866/Acc.54588 Variations in title - Cover title: New Zealand, past, present and future Other Titles - New Zealand, past, present and future Quantity: 1 volume(s) (viii, 331 pages). Physical Description: Printed matter (22 cm, purple linen)

Date: 29 Apr 1864

Reference: MS-Papers-2980

Description: Names of those killed and wounded. Includes: Name, rank, ship on which they served, nature of the injury. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (Photocopies)

Date: 1841-1851

From: United Kingdom. Admiralty : Records relating to the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-5763

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1957

From: Dollimore, Edward Stewart, 1904-1973 : Papers

Reference: 83-145-073

Description: Correspondence file re log of the HMS Herald, 1840-1851; correspondence file re HMS Curacoa and Commodore Sir William Wiseman. Correspondents include Dr Falla and Duncan MacCallum. Includes references to John B Dore. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1858-1875

From: Royal Naval Hospital Haslar : Surgeons' journals

Reference: Micro-MS-0646-3

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1838-1843

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2437

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1839-1844

From: United Kingdom. Admiralty : Records relating to the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-5764

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.