Alameda (Ship)

Date: 1897

By: Morice, Louisa Jane Spotswood, 1873-1957

Reference: PA1-f-069

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Louie J Seddon in 1897 on a trip around the world on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. They include several photographs on the group's return, especially one of Parliament Buildings, and five views of a reception for Mr Crow (R J Seddon's private secretary) by Ministerial Secretaries celebrating his return. Beneath the main inscription inside the first page is further information in Louie Seddon's copper-plate writing which reads "Our party consisted of my Father (the Right Hon. R J Seddon; Mother; Sister (Mary); Myself and Mr W Crow (Father's private secretary). We left Wellington, 15th April 1897, went via San Francisco - New York route to London - and returned by the overland (to Naples) and Suez Canal route, arriving Wellington, 8th Sept. 1897". En route to England a number of photographs show shipboard life, and several of the party in Samoa, one with Bishop and Mrs Wallis, and King Malietoa. In England there is one photograph cut from an English paper showing R J Seddon at Hawarden Castle with the Right Hon. Sir Wilford Laurier, Rt Hon and Lady Carrington, Rt Hon and Mrs W E Gladstone, Rt Hon G H Reid and Sir Louis Davies, July 1897. Also a sequence of views of the "Agent General's River Excursion on the Thames". The group visited various British Seddon family members at Eccleston and Bickerstaffe; and they visited Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle's birthplace and grave. Photographs take up 32 pages with the rest blank apart from two newspaper cuttings attached to page 53. One is about Lady Freyberg at the Linen Guild (Evening Post, August 11, 1948?); the other about the ship Janie Seddon which was about to be sold (September 1946). On page 009 is a newspaper article on "King Dick" (Richard John Seddon), written in 1951 "By one who knew him" 45 years after his death. Inscriptions: Album page - "A memento of our trip around the world on the occasion of the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1897" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, red leather corners and spine, entitled "Louie J Seddon, 1897" in gold lettering; 27.5 x 39.5 cm

Date: 1921

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948; Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898-1980

Reference: A-153-004

Description: View of ship moored at Wellington, viewed from a nearby wharf Other Titles - Ship Alameda at Wellington in 1921 Inscriptions: Verso - Signed Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 132 x 187 mm

Date: 1854-1936

By: Taylor, William Taylor, 1854-1936

Reference: MS-Papers-0214

Description: Papers relating to Taylor's career at sea, and to his father, William Tate Taylor. Some family correspondence, but mostly certificates, testimonials, accounts, etc. Also family reminiscences by a daughter, Mrs C E N R Raleigh Other Titles - Captain Bill Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1920

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: A-153-011

Description: The remains of the ship Alameda moored at Clyde Quay, Wellington, with buildings and Mount Victoria sketched in beyond it. There are sketches of boys onthe back of the sheet Inscriptions: Signed: A.L.H. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 190 x 132 mm

Date: Apr 1897

From: Morice, Charles George Frederick, 1868-1966 :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-030973-F

Description: Richard Seddon, with two of his daughters, his wife, and and his private secretary on the deck of the ship Alameda in April 1897. From left, W Crow (private secretary), Louisa Jane Spotswood Seddon, Richard Seddon, Louisa Jane Seddon, Mary Seddon. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer. The group was travelling to England for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee celebrations. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [191-?]

Reference: 1/2-025437-F

Description: Location unidentified. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1920

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: A-153-005

Description: The ship Alameda, partially stripped, at Clyde Quay in Wellington Harbour Inscriptions: Signed: A.H. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour wash 216 x 157 mm

Date: 1897

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ships and shipping companies, mainly on voyages to New Zealand. 1890 -1899]

By: Oceanic Steamship Company; Schmidt Label & Litho Company

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1897-02

Description: A breakfast menu, listing: Breakfast delight [?], fried mullets, smoked snapper, fillets of beef Spanish, mutton chops and potato chips, broiled chicken on toast, pork cutlets [with] fried apples, fried [bananas?] sausage, tripe fried in butter, ... liver bacon and ..., eggs ... fried and boiled .., boiled and mashed potatoes, hot rolls ...toast, currant ... tea, coffee, cocoa. The menu is handwritten on to a pre-printed sheet showing the head and shoulders of an old bearded sailor appearing on the sail of a ship. Louisa Jane Spotswood Morice (nee Seddon) was travelling on the 'Alameda' in 1897, to England for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee celebrations. Similar menu has "Morice album" pencilled on the verso. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on flyer.. Physical Description: Lithograph on flier, 228 x 152 mm.