Aircraft carriers - Great Britain
Photograph album 1929-1939
Date: 1929-1939
From: Kain family: Papers and photographs relating to the life and career of Edgar James 'Cobber' Kain
Reference: PA1-o-985
Description: Album documenting the life and career of Edgar James Kain (1918-1940) from childhood in Wellington until the outbreak of war in 1939. The album includes home life in Wellington, a family climbing holiday in the Southern Alps in 1929, scenes in Christ's College, Christchurch; voyage to England on SS Orford in 1936, including views in Colombo, Aden and Suez); flight training at the Brough Aviation Club; social life, sporting activities and friends in England, France and Italy in the period 1936-1939; and Royal Air Force activities in the period 1937-1939. This album is particularly strong on views of aircraft, personnel, bases and activities of the Royal Air Force in the immediate pre-war years. Kain was posted to No 73 Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force, at Digby, Lincolnshire, in November 1937, flying Gloster Gladiator biplanes. In July 1938 the Squadron became one of the first to receive the new Hawker Hurricane fighters. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Provenance: Donors are Edgar Kain's sisters.
British fleet with aircraft carrier, Wellington
Date: 1914-1960
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-040969-G
Description: Photograph taken for the 'Free Lance' newspaper between 1914 and 1960 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
British fleet with aircraft carrier, Wellington
Date: 1914-1960
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-040970-G
Description: Photograph taken for the 'Free Lance' newspaper between 1914 and 1960 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
British aircraft carrier Indefatigable, Wellington Harbour
Date: Nov 1945
From: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955 :Negatives of New Zealand towns and scenery, and Fiji
Reference: 1/4-020662-F
Description: British aircraft carrier Indefatigable in Wellington Harbour, November 1945. Photograph taken by William Hall Raine. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
British aircraft carrier Indefatigable, Queen Charlotte Sound
Date: Nov 1945
From: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955 :Negatives of New Zealand towns and scenery, and Fiji
Reference: 1/4-020661-G
Description: British aircraft carrier Indefatigable, Queen Charlotte Sound, November 1945. Photograph taken by William Hall Raine. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Two Naval seaplanes parked on the deck of HMS Ark Royal
Date: 1915
From: Paterson, E B :139 photographs relating to World War One experiences of Hugh Townshend Boscawen
Reference: PAColl-0914-1-30-1
Description: Two naval seaplanes parked on the deck of HMS Ark Royal. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1915 Inscriptions: Verso - Short 136. Wight 172.; Taken on board the aerodrome ship whilst at Lemnos. HTB. The seaplanes are Wight Type A 1 Improved Navyplane, No 172 (left), and Short Type 135, No 136 (right). They are on the deck of the British Navy's first aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal, which at the time was at Lemnos. (This photograph also appears in "The Wight Aircraft", Michael H Goodall, Gentry Books, London, p 37) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
British aircraft carrier Indefatigable, Wellington Harbour
Date: Nov 1945
From: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955 :Negatives of New Zealand towns and scenery, and Fiji
Reference: 1/4-020660-F
Description: British aircraft carrier Indefatigable in Wellington Harbour, November 1945. Photograph taken by William Hall Raine. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative