Rotorua (Ship : 1876-1903)

Date: [Between 1880s and 1890s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-079

Description: Views of the Otago Region taken by unidentified photographers, circa 1870s to 1895. Many show buildings in Dunedin, including one house `Lisburn House' built for the Fulton family in 1865; also commercial buildings, church buildings, school buildings (Otago Boys' High School), and Dunedin Gaol. The church buildings include the Chapel in Leith Street, the Chapel in Great King Street, and the Baptist Chapel. Beyond Dunedin there are views of Naseby, Butchers Gully, Port Chalmers, Cromwell, Kyeburn, Shag Valley, and Lake Hayes, Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover decorated with gold birds, lettering and decorations outlined in black; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: between 1876-1903

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-003412-G

Description: The steam ship Rotorua at Port Chalmers, photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Rotorua"; Marginal notes on negative - top left - 222-227 Steam ship built in 1876 by W Denny & Bros for the Union Steam Ship Co of NZ. First ran in the Inter-colonial service in conjuction with the SS Wakatipu, Dunedin-Sydney via Onehunga. Also employed on the Wellington-Lyttelton ferry service, and later in the Wellington-Nelson service. Sold to Japanese buyers in 1903, recommissioned in the Far East, and renamed Shin Lee. See Ships with New Zealand Associations (Vol 7, p 17 & 19) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: between 1876-1903

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-003411-G

Description: The steam ship Rotorua in Port Chalmers harbour, photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Rotorua"; Marginal notes on negative - top left - 222-227 Steam ship built in 1876 by W Denny & Bros for the Union Steam Ship Co of NZ. First ran in the Inter-colonial service in conjuction with the SS Wakatipu, Dunedin-Sydney via Onehunga. Also employed on the Wellington-Lyttelton ferry service, and later in the Wellington-Nelson service. Sold to Japanese buyers in 1903, recommissioned in the Far East, and renamed Shin Lee. See Ships with New Zealand Associations (Vol 7, p 17 & 19) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: between 1876-1903

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-003409-G

Description: The steam ship Rotorua at Port Chalmers, photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Rotorua"; Marginal notes on negative - top left - 222-227 Steam ship built in 1876 by W Denny & Bros for the Union Steam Ship Co of NZ. First ran in the Inter-colonial service in conjuction with the SS Wakatipu, Dunedin-Sydney via Onehunga. Also employed on the Wellington-Lyttelton ferry service, and later in the Wellington-Nelson service. Sold to Japanese buyers in 1903, recommissioned in the Far East, and renamed Shin Lee. See Ships with New Zealand Associations (Vol 7, p 17 & 19) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: between 1876-1903

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-003410-G

Description: The steam ship Rotorua in Port Chalmers harbour, photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Rotorua"; Marginal notes on negative - top left - 222-227 Steam ship built in 1876 by W Denny & Bros for the Union Steam Ship Co of NZ. First ran in the Inter-colonial service in conjuction with the SS Wakatipu, Dunedin-Sydney via Onehunga. Also employed on the Wellington-Lyttelton ferry service, and later in the Wellington-Nelson service. Sold to Japanese buyers in 1903, recommissioned in the Far East, and renamed Shin Lee. See Ships with New Zealand Associations (Vol 7, p 17 & 19) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1897-1898

From: Jenkin, Robert :Albums of photographs by Arthur Jenkin, ca 1895-1898

Reference: PA1-o-1047

Description: Tourists on a holiday cruise on SS Rotorua to the Southern West Coast and Fiordland in 1897. Places include Milford Sound, George Sound, and Preservation Inlet. Most of the rest of the album relates to Piha. There are also photographs of a group of men on a hike, men fishing, the loaded Thames-Te Aroha coach, the "Tabernacle" football team of 1898, men on a hunting trip grouped outside a slab hut, and men playing with a friendly horse. The collection is also a good record of clothing worn by men engaged in fairly rough leasure persuits in the 1890s where rugby jerseys were worn in the way sweat shirts are today Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1969

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

Reference: A-467-023

Description: Shows the steamship 'Rotorua' in open water. Smoke is coming from the chimney. A seamark for navigation is visible at the edge of the image. Signed and dated by artist Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, block-mounted, 182 x 232 mm

Date: 1878

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ships and shipping companies, mainly on voyages to New Zealand. 1870 -1879]

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1878-01

Description: Pamphlet shows the timetable of sailings for May 1978, to ports in New Zealand and to Sydney. The ships involved were the 'Beautiful Star', 'Hawea', 'Lady Bird', 'Maori', 'Rotorua', 'Samson', 'Taiaroa', 'Taranaki', 'Taupo', 'Waitaki', 'Wakatipu', 'Wanaka', 'Wellington'. There is also a timetable for the trains to and from the ports at which the steamers called. The back panel shows a list of agencies, and a map of New Zealand. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet 114 x 224 mm, folded to 114 x 77 mm.

Date: 20 Apr-6 Jul 18--?

By: Leatham, William Newland, 1866-1953

Reference: MS-1144

Description: Diary of a voyage from New Plymouth to London, from Auckland to Sydney on SS `Rotorua' then transshipment to SS `Potosi' for voyage to London Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (76 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (Red calf, marbled boards) Pencil sketches of ships SS `Potosi' and `Oxford', and land forms

Date: 1874, 1883-1944

From: Richmond family : Papers

Reference: 84-056-4/02A

Description: Correspondents include George Blackett, G M Rolleston?, R C Fisher, Edith Martineau, Mathilde Becker (re Her son Gunter), Dorothy K Richmond, Joanna D D Harper, Emily Richmond, C J Monro, Kitty Canavan, Eric Gill, Cecil Day, Lucy Lowell, Ella Herbert Smith, Anna Britton, Caroline S Atherton, Hilda M Tayler, Oswald Chettle Mazengarb, NZ Methodist Times, Doreen Beard (re son H H Beard), Mrs Nellie Peryman, NZ Women's Christian Temperance Union, BBC, Amy Jervois, Florence A Jervois, H D Skinner, National Council of Churches in NZ, Sir A Ngata, A D Henderson, Ethel G Dillon, Ethel W Cobb (on board TSS Rotorua), A H Reed, H D Skinner Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 30 Oct 1878-31 Jan 1879

By: Batten, James, 1834-1912

Reference: MS-Papers-4801

Description: Diary of voyage from London to Melbourne on the `Sobraon', and from there to Nelson, on the ship `Claud Hamilton'. Includes passenger lists and descriptions of cabin passengers. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs Lorna Joyce, Mana, 1993

Date: 1899

By: Barnes, Frank, 1859-1941

Reference: G-083

Description: Shows the three-masted steamship the S S 'Waiwera' in the foreground, heading out towards the harbour heads to the right. Soldiers in uniform are standing to attention in lines on the decks. In the immediate foreground is a rowboat containing five figures. Behind the SS 'Waiwera', are other escorting ships, in front of a background of the Orongorongos. Most of the escorting steamers face back to the left with only one, the SS 'Tutanekai' facing to the right. They include (from left): SS 'Rotorua', SS 'Duchess', SS 'Te Anau', SS 'Takapuna', SS 'Tutanekai', SS 'Mokoia' and the small 'Ellen Ballance'. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas board, 325 x 480 mm.

Date: Early 1890s

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-141096-G

Description: Steam ship Rotorua at Dunedin wharf, photographed in the early 1890s by William Williams. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Stereoscopic dry plate negative 3.25 x 6.75 inches

Date: 1881

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Smith, John Stace, active 1880

Reference: PA1-f-186

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).