Steel steamer of 8128 tons. Built in 1911 by Workman, Clark & Co., Belfast, for Shaw, Savill & Albion Shipping Co. Used as troopship during WWI (HMNZT No. 12), and sailed from Auckland on 11 October 1914 with 1600 men and 500 horses, part of the Auckland contingent of the Main Body. In 1918 she resumed her normal trade. In 1926 chartered by the Aberdeen Line and renamed Herminius. In 1932 reverted to Shaw, Savill & Albion, again as Waimana. In September 1939, the Waimana, Pakeha and Mamari were purchased by the British Government and converted into dummy warships to resemble the Royal Sovereign class. In February 1942 she again put to sea as the Empire Waimana. Repurchased again by Shaw, Savill, again as Waimana. Scrapped in 1952. See Ships with New Zealand Associations (Vol 4, p 59)
Waimana (Ship: 1911-1932)
Fitchett, W B, fl 1960 :Photograph album depicting the departure of Main Body, New Zeal...
Date: October 1914, February 1919
By: Fitchett, W B, active 1935-1960; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942; Maybury, Horace R, active 1907-1943; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Tibbutt, Walter Francis, 1872-1929
Reference: PA1-f-022
Description: Album mainly of photographs of the assembly and departure of the Main Body, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, from Wellington in October 1914. It includes photographs of the troopships, Japanese and British naval escort, temporary camps, exercising of horses, embarkation of soldiers and loading of supplies. One photo showing the Verdala (As HMNZT No 13) with a pencil annotation reading 'Verdala with reinforcements' from December 1914. Most photographs were taken by S C Smith, with others taken by H R Maybury, Leslie Hinge and W F Tibbutt. It also includes a photograph of Queens Wharf, Wellington, taken February 1919 by H R Maybury. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue cloth bound album 27.4 x 39 cm Provenance: Album formerly in the possession of W B Fitchett, Lowry Bay.
Outward correspondence to family members
Date: 1914
From: Stichbury, Vincent John, 1891-1966 : Family papers and World War One diaries
Reference: MS-Papers-11559-03
Description: Folder contains correspondence from Stichbury home to his family during World War One. Includes letters to his parents (William and Hannah Stichbury), sisters (Myrtle, Eva and Elsa Stichbury) and brothers (Bill and Tim [sic] Stichbury). Letters detail training and departure to Egypt. Stichbury sailed aboard the `Waimana', details life and training aboard the transport. Recounts stopovers on the way to Alexandria. Continues with life in Zeitoun Camp. Much of the correspondence relates to domestic family events back home in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs Processing information: Digitisation details - Part of WW100 digitisation project.
Partial draft of letter to Alan A Kirk
Date: 1968
From: Claridge, Cyril James, 1890-1976: Memoir scrapbook diary and papers
Reference: MS-Papers-9149
Description: Draft of part of a letter from Cyril James Claridge to Alan A Kirk describing the transport of horses to Alexandria in Egypt on the troopship 'Waimana' during World War One. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph draft manuscript letter. Transfers: Transferred from the Book Collections, 2008. Found inside front cover of book 'The Australian and New Zealand Expedionary Forces, assemblage and departure from Albany, WA'..
Ships and shipping
Date: [ca 1909-1955]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-097
Description: Photographs of New Zealand and overseas ships, many made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1900s-1950s. New Zealand related images include: Wharf at Opua, Bay of Islands; wharf at Helensville; Niagara and Zealandic moored at Queens Wharf; Rangatira; SS Pakeha (recently launched); steamer Matatua; Waimana. Also: Themistocles and Euripides, both recently taken over by Shaw, Savill & Albion for NZ-England service; immigrants disembarking from Mahana at Wellington, Jul 1920; port at Napier and Westport; eastern entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound. Includes various photographs of overseas ships (names not added to Name field) Quantity: 28 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints; 1 album leaf with black & white original photographic prints. Physical Description: Photochemical prints and silver gelatin print
Wool industry, wool sales and 'Golden Shears'
Date: ca1915-1961
From: Te Whaiti family : Collection
By: Golden Shears International Shearing Championship Society
Reference: MS-Papers-12777-11
Description: Folder made up of ephemera relating to the wool industry and wool sales, circa 1915. Comprises: - Lists of bales of wool, and bale marks, from the ships Delphic, Athenic, Makarini, Rotorua, Star of Australia, Indrabarah, Mimiro, Wakatane, Waimana, Anglo-Brazilian, Mottisfont, Star of Scotland, Ruapehu, possibly circa 1915. Wool stores include Back Church Lane 59 to 62 and1 St George Street 11 to 14. - Levin & Co. Limited. No. 3 priced catalogue of 5340 bales of wool. 26 January 1915. - Levin & Co. Limited. No. 2 priced catalogue of 5850 bales of wool. 10 December 1915. - 'Golden Shears: International Shearing and Wool Handling Championships', 1961, programme. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753: Previous reference: Eph-B-WOOL-1915. Previous title: [Ephemera relating to the wool industry and wool sales. ca 1915]. One piece incorporated from Eph-B-SHEARING-1900/1969.
[Ephemera relating to the wool industry and wool sales. 1920-1959]
Date: 1923 - 1928 - 1931 - 1947 - 1955 - 1932
By: Te Whaiti family
Reference: Eph-B-WOOL-1920/1959
Description: Includes: 1923: Wool season 1922-23. Catalogue of wool to be offered at public auction by the NZ Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Ltd at the Town Hall Wellington, 24 May 1923. 1928: Wool season 1927-28. Catalogue of wool to be offered at auction by the NZ Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Ltd at the Town Hall Wellington, 16 February 1928. 1931: Levin & Co. Limited. New Zealand wool sales 1931-1932. [Flyer] (2 copies) Levin & Co., Ltd. Wellington. A few hints regarding the forqwarding of wool and its preparation for the market. [Flyer. ca 1931] Woolgrowers' instructions to Levin & Co Ltd Wellington. Wool season 1931-1932. [Form] Levin & Company Limited. Wool season 1931-1932. [Newsletter; with slipped-in flyer titled "earthquake insurance". Wellington September 1931] 1947: Wool season 1947-48. Catalogue of wool to be offered at auction by New Zealand Farmers' Co-op Distributing Co. Ltd at the Wellington Technical College Wellington, 12 December 1947. Catalogue no. 5 1955: Dalgety and Company Limited. No 4 sale, season 1954-55. Part 1 - Lots 1 to 315. Catalogue of wool to be offered at auction on Monday May 2nd 1955, at the Repertory Theatre, Kilmore St. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donated from various sources.
The Waimana bite (newspaper)
Date: 4 Nov 1914
Reference: MSX-5149
Description: Pencil copy of vol 1 no 1 of `The Waimana bite' (4 Nov 1914) outlining plans for the newspaper and giving news, observations etc, and including letter from George to Ted in which he describes how he became editor, reporter and illustrator of the newspaper Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph with illustrations (½ blue morocco, blue linen) Two pencil drawings by editor, George Processing information: formerly q940.483
S.S. Waimana in dry dock at Port Chalmers, January 1915.
Date: 1915
From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives
Reference: 1/1-003450-G
Description: The steamer Waimana in dry dock at Port Chalmers. Photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus in January 1915. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - S.S. "Waimana" Port Chalmers dock. Jan 1915. [Signed] DeMaus.; Marginal notes on negative - top left - 540 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Creator of collection unknown :Warships and Transports of New Zealand's Main Expedition...
Date: 15 Oct 1914
Reference: PA6-413
Description: Other - "Prob[ably] from RSA" on back of print Inscriptions: Recto - above image - as title.; Recto - beneath image - names of ships in near distance Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Two images forming one print, mounted on card
The ship Waimana, HMNZT No 12, Wellington Harbour
Date: [between 1914-1918]
From: Dickie, John, 1869-1942 :Collection of postcards, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/2-014599-G
Description: Photograph taken by John Dickie. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
The troop transport "Waimana".
Date: 1914
From: Hutchison, James Douglas (Sir), 1894-1981:NZEF at Auckland, en route to Middle East, and at Gallipoli
Reference: PA1-o-573-11-1
Description: The troop transport "Waimana" on its way from Auckland to Egypt, 1914. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1914 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Waimana Sailed from Auckland, New Zealand, on 11 october 1914 with 1600 men and 500 horses Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
World War One scrapbook
Date: 1914-1917
From: Stichbury, Vincent John, 1891-1966 : Family papers and World War One diaries
Reference: MS-Papers-11559-02
Description: Folder contains a bound scrapbook of correspondence, ephemera, newspaper cuttings and printed material collected by Stichbury during his World War One military service. Includes shipboard and hospital menus, soldier's leave passes, postcards, tickets, souvenir programmes, certificates, troop list card, invitation cards, ANZAC Day 1916 (1st Anniversary) service programme at Hornchurch 23 Apr 1916, and discharge certificate for Stichbury 28 May 1917. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (bound volume). Physical Description: Printed scrapbook (32.5 cm) Processing information: Digitisation details - Part of WW100 digitisation project. 70 digitised images
Thomas Rees England - Letters written to his family
Date: 1899, 1903, 1914-1915
From: England family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11439-1
Description: Contains letter written to his sister Annie from Wanganui Collegiate School, Oct 1899 together with a school report for 2nd term, 1899 and letters written to his family while on active service during World War One, 13 November 1914-25 Aug 1915. Thomas England, a signaller in the Auckland Infantry Regiment, embarked with the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force bound for Egypt on 16 October 1914 aboard HMNZT 12 (Waimana). He embarked for Gallipoli on 12 April 1915 and saw action there until he was hospitalised on 27 Jul 1915. England was diagnosed as suffering from rheumatism and neurasthenia and was shipped back to New Zealand from England on 16 December 1915. He was discharged from the Army on 5 March 1916. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss & printed material Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 84 digitised images. Page of letter 2/12/1914 not included with donation.
Memoir scrapbook diary by Cyril James Claridge relating to service in World War One
Date: 28 August 1914-13 January 1916 - 1916-1974
From: Claridge, Cyril James, 1890-1976: Memoir scrapbook diary and papers
Reference: MSY-8364
Description: Volume comprising memoir scrapbook diary with entries and narrative descriptions, illustrated by mounted maps, photographic prints, newspaper clippings, and ephemera material, including a visiting card. Title page states: "Diary of C. J. Claridge 12/977 - Auckland Infantry, August 1914 - January 1916: While serving in the Auckland Infantry Battalion. New Zealand Expeditionary Force". The diary describes activities and travel: - Departure from Morrinsville for Auckland, and "Getting into the army". - Military training at "Potter's Park [also known as Potter's Paddock, now Alexandra Park] and Eden Park. - Departure from Auckland on the transport ship 'Waimana' (HMNZT No. 12). - Voyage on the 'Waimana' down East Coast of New Zealand to Wellington. - Trans-Tasman voyage to Hobart and from there to Albany, Colombo, Red Sea, Suez, Aden, Port Said, and Alexandria. - Military camp at Zeitoun, service in Egypt including march through Cairo. - Training, security patrols, and other military duties at Ishmailia, El Ferdan, and Serapeum. - Departure from Alexandria bound for Gallipoli (Dardanelles), via Lemnos Island, in April 1915. - Landing, 25 April 1915, and military action at Achi Baba - this is elaborated on in a section titled "The Anzacs and Achi Baba". - Relocation to Cape Helles, and reference to Daisy Patch, where Claridge describes being injured on 8 May 1915. - Taken aboard the HMHS 'Braemar Castle' and returned to Alexandria. - Voyage from Alexandria to Malta, where time is spent in hospital, before being transported on HMHS 'Ascania' to England. - Visits to Plymouth, Birmingham, Weymouth, and London. - Descriptions of travel to New Zealand, departing from Plymouth on SS 'Ruahine' on 17 November 1915 and voyage via Teneriffe, Cape Town, Hobart, and arrival back in Auckland on 5 January 1916. Numerous items enclosed, laid- and tipped in, including newspaper clippings. Newspaper clippings include: - 'New Zealand Herald', 14 June [1974] with image captioned "Mr Liddle looks through a diary written by Mr C. J. Claridge, aged 85, of Rothesay Bay, of experiences at Gallipoli". - 'The Auckland Star', 12 October 1954, showing parade of troops. Annotated copies of maps mounted in volume: - 'Sketch map to illustrate Sir Ian Hamilton's despatch', from 'Life', 1 May 1916, page 360. - 'Environs of Cairo and the Pyramids', published by A & C Black Ltd, London, imprint: John Bartholomew & Co. Edinburgh. Printed visiting card of Laura Jane Boddington (1863-1938) - "Mrs Laura J Boddington, 340 Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham" (laid in at page 89). Mounted photographic prints include group portrait of Gallipoli veterans at 50th anniversary meeting at Auckland War Memorial Museum on 16 October 1964. Ephemera mounted in diary includes: printed leaflet promoting free entry to "Grand Casino Bosphore - Soldier's Rest" at Bab El Hadid Square; "Cazino Ambassadeur" at Avenue Farouk, Cairo; and "Kursaal Music-Hall" at Emad el Din Street, Heliopolis. Also includes a 6-page letter from Claridge to his mother, dated Camp Zeitoun, 20 March 1915 (laid in at page 143), and a postcard to his mother dated 7 April 1915, featuring the 3rd Auckland Company marching, with annotations naming some subjects, including Claridge (mounted page 50). Some of the newspaper articles were written by Claridge or based on his communications (see for example mounted articles facing page 50), while others published excerpts from the diary (see page 67). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Bound volume, cloth binding with "Claridge" label on front cover, holograph manuscript on ruled pages, photographic prints, newspaper clippings, and ephemera, mounted and loose items laid in, 32 x 19.5 cm. Transfers: Papers originally enclosed with volume now at MS-Papers-12360..