IMAGE
Wairoa being towed into Port Chalmers
- Date
- 1890s?
- Reference
- 1/1-002475-G
- Description
The Wairoa being towed into Port Chalmers by two tugboats, the funnel amidships being that of the second tugboat. Photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus in 1890s? In this image she is rigged as a barque, though according to Alan Bott in "The sailing ships of the New Zealand Shipping Co", and "Crossed flags" by W A Laxon et al. she was not reduced to a barque until 1897, after she had been purchased by a Norwegian company and renamed "Winnipeg".
Reproduced in "The sailing ships of the NZSCo" by Alan Bott (Pl. 61, p 90)
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Towing to Dunedin; Marginal notes on negative - bottom centre - Wairoa
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Marines (Visual works), Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches, Orientation: Horizontal image
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