Alpha (Ship)
Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Wreck at the mouth of the Patea River. [South Taran...
Date: 1864 - 1865
From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]
By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898
Reference: E-047-q-044
Description: View looking out to sea, with the Patea River's southern coast cliffs to the left, a steam moored at a sandhill on the south bank. In the right foreground are the remains of a sailing ship, broken in half. Soldiers are salvaging timbers from the vessel. The vessel may be the Alpha, a cutter wrecked off Patea in April 1865. The drawing is based on one by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Mouth of the Patea' [1865?] in the Hocken Library, on p. 115 of their now dismantled E. A. Williams' sketchbook Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white on cream paper, 137 x 235 mm
Mountain, Thomas, b 1819 : Memorandum books
Date: 1861-1870, 1875-1879
By: Mountain, Thomas, 1819-
Reference: Micro-MS-0742
Description: Shipboard records kept while engaged in trade along the NSW coast as mate 1861-1865, and as master of several schooners and the barque Schoolboy 1865-1879. Trade mainly between Richmond River and Sydney. Cargoes included cedars, wheat, potatoes and coal from Newcastle. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 500 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm Finding Aids: Inventory available.