Tarlton, Kelvin Ewart, 1937-1985

Date: [1976]

By: Tarlton, Kelvin Ewart, 1937-1985

Reference: MS-Papers-2038

Description: Research notes on de Surville; account of search for and discovery of anchors, 1969-1974, and raising and treatment of two in 1975. One is now in Kaitaia Museum, one in national collection Diver, founder of Shipwreck Museum, Waitangi Quantity: 1 folder(s) (22 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and photographs (photocopies)

Date: [ca 1974]

By: Kelly Tarlton's Museum of Shipwrecks; Tarlton, Kelvin Ewart, 1937-1985

Reference: PAColl-0412

Description: Five photographs of anchors from the St Jean Baptiste, which had been commanded by Jean de Surville, and which sank in Doubtless Bay in 1769. Two anchors were found by Kelly Tarlton in 1974. These photographs show the first anchor (and the second?). Also a photograph of the former cray boat the Miss Akaroa, probably at Napier. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-068692 and 116413 Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1978 - 1982

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1980-01

Description: Card in the shape of a helmeted diver. The verso shows diver Kelly Tarlton, and divers salvaging trinkets and relics. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on man-shaped card, 220 x 100 mm.

Date: 1981

By: Tarlton, Kelvin Ewart, 1937-1985

Reference: MS-Papers-10893

Description: The report with diagrams and photographs was prepared when the wreckage of an unknown ship was discovered during the excavation of a marina at Tauranga in 1981. The wreck was examined, its identity established and recommendations made for its future. The report was prepared for New Zealand Historic Places Trust and the Bay of Plenty Harbour Board The Martha, a whaling barque, was built in Massachusetts in 1805. In 1883 her registration was closed and she was converted to a hulk and subsequently sunk at Tauranga Quantity: 1 folder(s) (36 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 3 March 1995 - 18 January 1996

By: Locker-Lampson, Steve, 1937-2012

Reference: OHColl-1153

Description: Comprises 13 interviews with people who knew Kelly Tarlton, the marine archaeologist, diver, and marine conservationist who died in 1985. Tarlton's widow Rosemary and daughters Fiona and Nicole also contribute. Interviewees recall first meeting Tarlton. Some recall learning to dive with him and mention diving in Matapouri Bay and off the Poor Knights Islands in Northland. Others discuss commercial diving with Tarlton, as well as accompanying him on salvage expeditions to find sunken ships such as the 'Tasmania', the 'Elingamite', the 'General Grant' and the failure to find the wreck of the 'Lutine'. They mention his Museum of Shipwrecks aboard the restored sailing ship 'Tui' in Paihia. Interviewees also talk about Tarlton's hard work in building and stocking his Underwater World (now Sea Life) aquarium in Auckland. They comment on his early death. Interviewees are: Quentin Bennett, Malcolm Blair, Willy Bullock, Robert Davy, John Dearling, John Gallagher, David Moran, Peter and Phillipa Pettigrew, John Pettit, Patrick and Diane Ryan, Fiona Tarlton, Mia Nicole Tarlton, Rosemary Tarlton. Bibliography - 'Throw me the wreck, Johnny: Memories of Kelly Tarlton, the man behind the legend' by Steve Locker-Lampson was published in 1996 by Halcyon Press, Auckland. Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-024486 - OHC-024499 Abstracts: OHA-8087 - OHA-8099 The interviews were carried out by Locker-Lampson as part of his research for a biography of Kelly Tarlton. Quantity: 14 C90 cassette(s). 13 printed abstract(s). 13 interview(s). Search dates: 1995 - 1996

Date: 1992

By: Walker, Malcolm, 1950-; Sunday News (Newspaper); The Independent (Newspaper)

Reference: B-129-048/087

Description: Subjects include: Ruth Richardson the Minister of Finance apportioning money; Prime Minister Jim Bolger and Mike Moore Opposition leader build sandcastles; the public and the government differ in their diagnoses of the economy; the cricketers deserve to be hanged; economy and the crime rate; discount (inferior) health service for old people; Bob Hawke (former Australian Prime Minister) and Rob Muldoon in the political dustbin; MAF quarantine for Jim Bolger's "Foot in mouth" disease; rugby selectors reject Gary [Whetton?]; Kelly Tarlton's Underwater world; Jim Bolger suggests trade of surplus arms for Maori land; truth and fiction in government (24 May 1992); Winston Peters leaps into an empty swimming pool without having filled it first; Ruth Richardson's peers offer complimentary remarks about the sinking inflation; Winston Peters shoots himself in the foot; Electricorp profits offer no solace to consumers; politics gives rugby the boot (cf 1981); the Budget jack-in-a-box; the electoral referendum does not allow an option with FEWER politicians; Princess Diana's phone admirer calls her Squidgy; Sealord Fisheries pirates; New Zealand unwelcome guests at the UN Security Council Happy Hour; Jim Bolger hopes to mace Winston Peters to get the leaked BNZ document off him; election referenda may send Jim Bolger over a cliff; Ruth Richardson's free enterprise idea may be grasped by Fletcher Challenge; child pornography becomes a growing business in New Zealand Courts; the BNZ building as a maze on a narrow headland; the deficit is a pile of dung on the road to success; Jenny Shipley as a child abuser; Jenny Shipley dressed as a disciplinary Madonna-type figure (ie Madonna, USA, 1958- ); BNZ as a Pandora's box; the caucus ponders how to use the one brain it has between its members; Auckland Electric Power Board wants to sack Mr Collinge the chairman; the Caucus cannot face Winston Peters; Jim Anderton, NZ Alliance leader walks with his head above the clouds on a string; Simon Upton is given an injection of Ministerial Responsibility; the Queen laments that Princess Diana and Sarah the Duchess of York were not in Windsor Castle when it burned; the Duke of Edinburgh walks out as the Queen begins to say: "My husband and I..."; John Banks is taken into the Hall of Dorks while Keith Hancox is booted out from the Hall of Fame; the gamble of voting, playing rugby, investing through a lawyer, supporting our cricket team or eating shellfish. Quantity: 40 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes varying from 295 x 420 mm, to 340 x 460 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: [192-?]

By: Tarlton, Kelvin Ewart, 1937-1985

Reference: 1/2-059888-F

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

Date: [ca 1 February 1967]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Tarlton, Kelvin Ewart, 1937-1985

Reference: EP-New Zealand Recreation-Scuba diving-01

Description: Photograph of scuba diver Wade Doak hovering above the sea bed, holding a bag of coins he recovered from a shipwreck, taken ca 1 February 1969 by Kelly Tarlton. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.6 x 16.9 cm