Shipwrecks - New Zealand - West Coast Region

Date: 1924, date unknown

From: Cox, Neil, active 1991: Photographs relating to Captain Frederic William Cox and the wreck Ngahere

Reference: 35mm-123247

Description: Copy negative of a photographic print originally taken in 1924, shows the steamer Ngahere wrecked at Greymouth. Taken by an unidentified photographer, date not known. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s) 120 film negative containing one frame. Transfers: From PAColl-1936.. Processing information: Negative separated for reasons of preservation and storage.

Date: [1900s-1960s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-31

Description: Collection comprises street scenes; shipping and shipwrecks at Greymouth and other places; railway bridges; visits of parliamentarians Richard Seddon and Michael Joseph Savage; croquet; schoolboy rugby; fancy dress; waterfall; floods; Lyell: and pancake rocks, Punakiaki. Photographs taken 1900s-1960s by James Ring and L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1866

Reference: A-159-012

Description: A view from the sea looking towards shipwrecks on the bar and the houses of the town to the left, hills in the background Other Titles - New Zealand Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - in pencil, spread from far left to far right: Channel. Hokitika N. Z. 1866 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 172 x 229 mm

Date: [ca 1957]

By: Pearse, Ben, active 1957-1987

Reference: PAColl-6976

Description: Scenes of the jubilee of a convent school (possibly St Patrick's) and of Blaketown and its school in 1957. The convent reunion shows ex-pupils grouped by the year they attended the school, a dinner, a table of trophies etc. The Blaketown jubilee is marked by a procession of floats, the creation of a Miss Jubilee, a dinner etc. Also included are a two older copy negatives of Greymouth and scenes on the wharves with what may be a shipwreck and the grounded vessel the Abel Tasman. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059346 to 059428. Quantity: 2 container(s) of negatives. Physical Description: Film and glass negatives Transfers: File print at PAColl-4384. Processing information: Description updated 5 April 2023 following information provided by the donor.

Date: [1880s-1960s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-30

Description: Collection comprises street scenes; shipping and shipwrecks at Greymouth and other places; HMNZS Pukaki; railway locomotives, railcars, bridges and accidents; visits of parliamentarians Peter Fraser and Sir Eruera Tirikatene, and Governor at Brunnerton coal mine; croquet; schoolboy rugby; fancy dress; opening of Catholic church building; waterfall; fires; floods; and state house. Photographs taken 1880s-1960s by James Ring and L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1907-1933]

By: Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; Mascotte Studio; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-1888

Description: Photograph album of shipping movements and shipwrecks at Greymouth, compiled by an unidentified person. Also contains one image of a wreck at Westport. Photographs taken between circa 1907 and 1933 by mainly unidentified photographers. West Coast photographer James Ring, L A Inkster, and Mascotte Studio are identified. Most of the ships are named. - Album contains images of ships wrecked crossing the Greymouth Bar. Also ship movements with mainly steam ships, but also some sailing vessels and the tug boat 'Westland', arriving in and departing from Greymouth as well as docked at the wharf. Photographs of note include a series of images of the wreck of the SS 'Ngahere' (1924), including rescue effort with rocket firing line to the wreck, crew in lifebelts waiting to be rescued, and two images of the wreck photographed from the air; the crew of the SS 'Perth' abandoning ship in a lifeboat; series of the wreck of the 'Kotuku', including rescue cradle between the boat and the land, the wreck being pounded by heavy seas and breaking up, and, later, the remains being blown up; the SS 'Kaituna' docked at Greymouth Wharf with the Grey River in flood; series of images of the wreck of the SS 'Lauderdale', including Captain Clarke coming ashore in a rescue cradle and the vessel breaking up; series of images of the wreck of the SS 'Kaponga' including shortly after the ship struck the North Tip, with hatches up to dump cargo, being driven against the North Tip, and breaking up; circa 11 ships docked at Greymouth Wharf in 1928; coal being loaded onto the SS 'Ngakuta'; and people inspecting the wreck of the 'Tavanui' at low tide at Westport. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Cardboard cover with light grey reptilian texture embossed with word 'Photographs' in gold and tied with string, 13.4 x 21.4 cm Provenance: Purchase, 2014. Album had been in the possession of Dr Rod McLeod, now deceased. He was the founder of the Queensland Maritime Museum, and a surgeon.

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Cox, Neil, active 1991

Reference: ATL-Group-00896

Description: Title supplied by Library. Similar images at PAColl-5376; 1/2-091678 and 1/2-091689. Donor, Neil Cox, is the Grandchild of Frederic William Cox. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w copy negative(s). Processing information: ATL Group created 6 June 2023 following information provided by a staff member.

Date: 1868-1972

From: Heinz, William Frederick, 1899-1976: Photographs and negatives of gold mining and other facets of the West Coast

Reference: PAColl-0372-2

Description: Comprises photographs of group portraits, townships, gold mines and people mining for gold, public and private residences, landscape paintings, drawings and several unidentified grounded shipping vessels. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 93 b&w copy photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints and mounted newspaper illustrations.

Date: 1885-1936

From: Heinz, William Frederick, 1899-1976: Photographs and negatives of gold mining and other facets of the West Coast

Reference: PAColl-0372-1

Description: Comprises photographs of mountain ranges, children, individuals panning for gold, public and private residences, automobiles, and the shipping vessel Able Tasman grounded on Greymouth beach. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints and postcards.

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-435

Description: Photographs taken circa 1880s by James Ring, photographer based in Greymouth. Scenes in Greymouth and nearby include views of severe flooding (p 3-5, 7); loading ships at the wharf showing hydraulic cranes raising hoppers of coal, and rolling stock laden with coal for transportation. Three shipping photographs including the SS Gerda wrecked on the Greymouth Breakwater in June 1888; the SS Mawhera ashore on North Beach, Greymouth in 1886, and the SS Rosamond crossing the Greymouth Bar. Beyond Greymouth views include the Grey River, Rocky Island, Brunnerton and the Brunnerton Bridge, and the West Coast Road. Then views of Lake Brunner, Refuge Island and Mitchell Falls. The Teremakau [now Taramakau] River is next, one view showing the road bridge, and one showing the flying fox (wire bridge) leading over to the Teremakau Hotel. These are followed by scenes along the Otira Gorge, including Warnock's Nob, Westley's Creek (Wesley Creek), and Starvation Point, before reaching Porter's Pass, Broken River, Arthur's Pass and the Devil's Punch Bowl Falls. The last sequence show Grasmere Station, Castle Hill Station (with one view of snow gates) and Craigieburn Station; the town of Cass; Bealey, Bealey Hotel, and Bealey Gorge, Lake Pearson and Lake Mapourika. Other Titles - New Zealand Views, by James Ring, Greymouth, N. Z. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with quarterbound red cover, red leather corners and spine; entitled "New Zealand Views, by James Ring, Greymouth, N.Z."; 24 x 31 cm

Date: 21 November 1921

By: Stewardson, G W (Mrs), active 1977

Reference: PAColl-8576

Description: Photograph of the wreck of the Perth, Greymouth, taken 21 November 1921 by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 11/21 Perth wreck First boat arrives Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 9.6 x 15.4 cm, mounted in card

Date: 1902

By: Kettle, B, active 1902

Reference: G-303

Description: A view from the beach with the ship close to shore, the breakwater on the left. Spectators are along the beach Identified by B T Daniel, Waterfront Gallery, Wellington, Sep 1981 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil 294 x 446 mm

Date: [ca 1881]

From: Perkins, J (Mr), fl 1967 :Photograph album and loose prints

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Perkins, William Herbert, -1927; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-415

Description: Photographs of Greymouth, Grey River, Brunnerton, Ahaura, Reefton, Waimakariri, Lake Pearson, Lake Brunner, Dillmanstown, Milford Sound, Franz Josef Glacier, Ross, and the thermal areas of central North Island. The photographers represented include William Herbert Perkins, James Ring and the Burton Brothers. There is one interior view of a quartz-crushing battery at Reefton. Pages 55, 57 and 58 have portraits of women (and one man) in "Fancy Fair" costumes Inscriptions: Album page - "William Perkins. Greymouth. 1884" Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, darker corners and spine; "Album" lettered in gold on spine; 23.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: 1865 - 1875

From: Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Sketch book ; sketches numbered 1 to 74 [i.e. 95] / [by] C W Richmond.

Reference: E-284-027

Description: A scene on the Hokitika River looking towards the river mouth, showing buildings, wharves and shipping on both sides of the river, with a ship keeling over in the distance on the bar. The phrase 'Not after nature' suggests some artistic licence on the part of the artist Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 101 x 155 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Greymouth Evening Star : Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: 1/2-050050-F

Description: Shipwrecks at Hokitika River mouth, West Coast, circa 1900. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 30 October 1908

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: 1/2-137181-F

Description: The steam ship "Hawea" run ashore at the entrance to the Grey River, Greymouth. Taken circa 30 October 1908 by James Ring. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - [Unreadable from the file print] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 4 September 1917

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: 1/1-027167-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1937

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-25005-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Leo White Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1865

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-028

Description: Shows a panorama looking north and south from the mouth of the Hokitika River with shipwrecks near the bar to the right, the river winding inland to the left, the town and wharves to the far left and the Southern Alps in the background. Many peaks are identified, including, from left, North Range Kanieri, South Range Kanieri, Browning Pass, Mount Cook, Mount Stokes, Mount Hooker Reproduced in: Burrows, Colin James. 'Julius Haast in the Southern Alps'. Canterbury University Press, 2005, plate 31. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 128 x 1325 mm

Date: [Jun 1888]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-51-15

Description: Photograph showing the SS Gerda at the end of the wharf at Greymouth, and listing badly to one side in the heavy seas. A crowd of spectators are gathered on the wharf. Photograph taken by James Ring in 1888 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wreck of S.S. Gerda 81 (Copyright) Ring's Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 140 x 205 mm