Warships - New Zealand

Date: 1914

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1964

From: Clough, Richard Lea :Slides of naval career

Reference: PA12-2201

Description: Slides taken by Richard Lea Clough when serving on HMNZS Royalist, 1963-1964. Collection comprises: Scenes in Hong Kong, during vist of HMNZS Royalist, showing city, port and hinterland. Warships HMS Lincoln, HMS Ambush, HMNZS Taranaki and HMAS Vampire are shown. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides (copies of originals returned to owner). Physical Description: 35mm dye coupler transparencies Finding Aids: Typescript and MS keys to slides on shelf at PAColl-6732.

Date: 1964-1964

From: Clough, Richard Lea :Slides of naval career

Reference: PA12-2200

Description: Slides taken by Richard Lea Clough when serving on HMNZS Royalist, 1963-1964. Collection comprises: Scenes on Aitutaki (Cook Islands) during Sir Bernard Fergusson's vice Regal tour of the Pacific Islands aboard HMNZS Royalist in 1964. HMNZS Royalist being refueled at sea by the fast fleet replenishment tanker HMS Tidereach, and in rendezvous with HMS Supply and HMAS Vampire. Slides taken during exercise LIGTAS, a mock invasion by sea and air of Mindoro Island (Philippines). Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides (copies of originals returned to owner). Physical Description: 35mm dye coupler transparencies Finding Aids: Typescript and MS keys to slides on shelf at PAColl-6732.

Date: 1964

From: Clough, Richard Lea :Slides of naval career

Reference: PA12-2199

Description: Slides taken by Richard Lea Clough when serving on HMNZS Royalist, 1964. Collection comprises: Rakahanga (Cook Islands), Moorea and Papeete (Society Islands) and Aitutaki (Cook Islands) during Sir Bernard Fergusson's vice Regal tour of the Pacific Islands aboard HMNZS Royalist in 1964. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides (copies of originals returned to owner). Physical Description: 35mm dye coupler transparencies Finding Aids: Typescript and MS keys to slides on shelf at PAColl-6732.

Date: 1913-1922

From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-228

Description: Views of Lake Rotoma, Hamurana Creek, and the Sanatorium gardens, Rotorua; Pukekura Park, New Plymouth; friends and houses in Napier; all 1916. Photographs of "Greenhill" homestead near Hastings, its gardens, and a group of visitors. Also "Ben Lomond" a house on the hill at Napier, its gardens and owners. All photographed in October 1921. Harold and Mabsie Hislop's house "Clovelly" at Wadestown, its gardens, and visiting friends. All photographed in 1916. A holiday at the Hermitage which included climbing trips and views of the Southern Alps. Photographs taken on board HMS New Zealand, and a view of ships stranded in Wellington Harbour by the waterside strike. Two photographs of a golfer on the Miramar golf course. All taken in 1913. Photographs of young women at Days Bay photographed in 1922 Inscriptions: Album page - `Wishing you very happy returns of this day, Aug. 18th 1916. With love, Dorice' (At end of album, upside-down) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red suede cover, entitled `Album. H.S.H.', containing platinum and silver gelatin prints; 18 x 34 cm

Date: [circa 1910s-1930s]

From: Sims family: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-1959

Description: Photograph album with 128 black and white photographic prints including portraits, group portraits, landscapes, and images depicting motor vehicles, steam trains, seaplanes, trams, yachts, and ships, including naval vessels, from the period circa 1910s to 1930s, by unidentified photographers, although many likely taken by Thomas Sims. Many of the photographs would appear to be dated from the period 1914-1918 with portraits of military personnel in uniform, steamships in Red Cross livery. Includes image depicting a figure with a bicycle standing alongside a stranded whale carcass on a beach. Streetscapes would apear to be mainly from Wellington, and include depictions of Oriental Parade and Wellington Harbour. The photographs in the album do not include captions or visible inscriptions. Quantity: 1 album(s) Containing 128 black and white photographic prints. Physical Description: Album in cloth binding with 'Album' on front board, 24 leaves with linen-hinged binding (partially disbound).

Date: 1955-1971

By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002

Reference: PA-Group-00375

Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.

Date: 1963-1964

From: Clough, Richard Lea :Slides of naval career

Reference: PA12-2198

Description: Slides taken by Richard Lea Clough when serving on HMNZS Royalist, 1963-1964. Collection comprises: Scenes in Picton and Nelson in 1963 Waitangi Day celebrations 1964 Raoul Island, Tonga, Niue and Pukapuka (Cook Islands) during Sir Bernard Fergusson's vice Regal tour of the Pacific Islands aboard HMNZS Royalist in 1964. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides (copies of originals returned to owner). Physical Description: 35mm dye coupler transparencies Finding Aids: Typescript and MS keys to slides on shelf at PAColl-6732.

Date: 1919

From: Munt, Jeanie, fl 1978 :Album of a selection of tourist photographs, of a school and of the Munt family, and loose prints

By: Jobson, Nancy, 1880-1964

Reference: PA1-o-356

Description: Album created by Nancy Jobson, the first principal of Queen Margaret College when it opened in Hobson Street in 1919. Photographs have captions, listing various staff members, including Miss Fyfe, Miss Gold, Miss Irving and Miss Naylor; pupils listed only with Christian names; and interior and exterior views of the school. Activities and outings are shown, including celebrations around Peace Day, with a visit on board HMS New Zealand (showing gun turrets, decks, and views from the wharf), banners and processions; picnics at the beach; trips to Kapiti Island; and pupils dressed for a performance of the Merchant of Venice. For full names of the pupils and staff of Queen Margaret College in 1919 see `A history of Queen Margaret College' by Mollie D Gambrill (1969) "Nancy Jobson" is printed in ink on the last page of the album. Inscriptions: Album page - `To dear Olive in loving appreciation and memory of her love and fidelity through the long years since 1919, from Nancy Jobson' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red-brown mock-suede cover, end-papers with brown, gold and red pattern; inscribed `N.J., Wellington 1919' in gold lettering; 21 x 26 cm

Date: [ca 1914-1939]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972 :Photographic prints

Reference: PAColl-9942-4

Description: Includes - Three related, hinged prints showing two warships in the inner Harbour, Wellington. A group of naval sailors and officers outside an unidentified building. Sailors on parade in front of the Wellington Cenotaph. View of upper Hutt Valley looking north-west from above Trentham Military Camp. Crowd gathered on a Wellington wharf to farewell troops, World War I. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931-1932

From: Duthie, Alastair Simpson, 1912-1995 :Photographs of Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition, coast watching in Sub-Antarctic Islands, service in Pacific, 1939-1945

Reference: PA1-o-1245

Description: Photographs of friends, family, mountaineering expeditions in the Southern Alps, and a mountaineering training camp. The mountaineering expeditions are as follows;- 1. Mount Cook climbing expedition, Easter 1932. 2. A climbing expedition in the Forbes Range, Christmas 1931-1932. 3. A trip to the Remarkables in 1931. 4. Climbing Mount Eley in 1931-1932 Three groups of photographs relate to the occasion of the first New Zealand climbing camp in the Rees Valley area in Decenber 1931/January 1932. One of the participants in this event was A P Harper who features in the group photographs. A photograph of HMS "Diomede," and groups of sailers on board HMS "Wakakura." Two views of the interior of a naval arsenal, probably in Dunedin. There are also many unidentified photographs of Mountains, River vallies, waterfalls, and glaciers in the Southern Alps. Also unidentified climbers, and climbing parties on mountains, at camps and mountain huts. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1915

By: Barnes, Frank, 1859-1941

Reference: C-175

Description: Three vignettes of World War I ships at sea: the NZHS Maheno in its hospital colours, framed by rope with a Red Cross flag and a garland of flowers including fern and kanuka; the HMS New Zealand, framed by rope, with a Union Jack and the British white ensign and a garland of flowers including pohutukawa; and the NZHS Marama in its hospital colours, also framed by rope with a Red Cross flag and a garland of flowers including fern and manuka The library also holds an oil of the SS Maheno in 1907, in its pre-WWI colours, at G-344; and a postcard of the ship in its hospital colours at Eph-B-POSTCARD-vol-4-041 The Library holds a watercolour of the Marama by E A Watkin, dated 1938, at B-163-040 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on wooden board, 135 x 685 mm

Date: 1999 - 2000

By: New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Navy; McLeavey, Michael, active 1998

Reference: Eph-D-NAVY-1999-01

Description: Shows ship profile portraits of ten warships: HMS New Zealand (served 1912-1922); HMS Philomel (served 1914-1917); HMS Chatham (served 1921-1924); HMS Dunedin (served 1924-1937); HMNZS Achilles (served 1936-1946); HMNZS Bellona (served 1946-1956); HMNZS Pukaki (served 1948-1965); HMNZS Otago (served 1961-1982); HMNZS Waikato (served 1966-1988); HMNZS Te Mana (served 1999- ). Artwork by Michael J McLeavey. Also gives information about tonnage, displacement, and engines. Gives years of service in the New Zealand navy. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster (plus duplicate)). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, on poster 595 x 422 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Office of the Chief of Naval Staff in 2000.

Date: 1974-1991

From: Zemanek, Norman Herbert Emanuel, 1909-2001 : Photographic prints

Reference: PAColl-10415-4

Description: Photographs of Wellington City and its environs, taken between 1974 and 1991 by Norm Zemanek. Subjects largely comprise notable buildings and landmarks, such as fountains. Transport also features with images of the old cable car, a Westpac rescue helicopter, and a number of ships included. Buildings shown are: the Bank of New Zealand under construction, the Beehive, the Federated Farmers building, the General Assembly Library, the House of Ladies (corner Boulcott and Willis Streets), the Kiwi Rock Cafe with the rear of a car protruding from its facade, the Majestic Towers, the Maritime Museum, the Michael Fowler Centre, the National Library of New Zealand, Old St Paul's, the Point Halswell Beacon (Lighthouse), the Public Trust Office, supports under the Shamrock Hotel during its shift, St Mary's (St Mary of the Angels), the State Insurance Office. Also included are views of wharf cranes showing parts of the city and Oriental Bay in the background; the amkons (large concrete blocks) at the south end of Wellington Airport, and the casting bed for the Ngauranga Gorge motorway flyover bridge. Other images show Frank Kitts Park and the 'Albatross' Fountain (also at night), the Oriental Bay (Carter) fountain, the NZI fountain, the plaster statue of Kupe being moved from Wellington Railway Station, the driving wheel at Evans Bay near the Patent Slip site (now known as Cog Park), Super Loops at the Wellington Exhibition, and the Bucket Tree near Tawa. Ships included: Esmeralda, Chilean tall ship; the NZ frigates Canterbury, Wellington, Taranaki and Otago in Wellington Harbour; Crystal Harmony cruise ship; Queen Elizabth II; a Polish tall training ship. Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2018

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the New Zealand Navy, merchant navy, naval defence]

Reference: Eph-A-NAVY-2018-01

Description: Programme for an event commemorating the sinking of the HMS 'Neptune' in 1941. Participants and speakers included Chaplain Peter Olds, ACSS David Lepou, LTCDR Kerry Moloney, LT Rob Shanks, Hon Kris Faafoi and RADM David Proctor CN. There is a page of biographical notes for each of the following: Hon Kris Faafoi (Minister of Civil Defence), Rear Admiral David Proctor (Chief of Navy), and Lieutenant Commander Kerry Moloney RNZNVR (Commanding officer of the HMNZS Olphert). Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 210 x 150 mm.

Date: 1914-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-042660-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

Date: 1914-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-042661-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

Date: 1914-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-042658-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

Date: 1914-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-042659-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

Date: 1914-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-042662-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