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Boats and boating

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Greenpoint Ship Graveyard

 Digital Image
Identifier: D28550017

Greenpoint Ship Graveyard, 2024

 Item
Identifier: S28550017
Overview Note - the subject of this entry is not on the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga list.
Dates: 2024

Invercargill Yacht Club

 Record Group
Identifier: A0061
Dates: Majority of material found within 1929 - 2010

Jellicoe Sea Scouts

 Record Group
Identifier: A0075
Dates: Majority of material found within 1941 - 1945

Ketch Danzig in Conon Street

 Digital Image
Identifier: D27520001_006

Ketch Tuarangi and crew off Lord Howe Island, c.1962

 Item — Digital-archive JPEG File: Series S2784
Identifier: S27840005
Scope and Contents Peter Baxter (nephew of photograph donor Sylvia Baxter) and friends who circumnavigated the globe in small ketch built in Invercargill. The boat was called the Tuarangi and left from Bluff, with Lord Howe Island their first port of call.

Peter Baxter was a partner in Gray, Heslin and Baxter.

Photographer unknown.
Dates: c.1962

LINDSAY, Gloria Margaret interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 49
Identifier: H0538
Overview Gloria has lived in Manapouri for nearly sixty years. One of only a handful of residents, she left Dunedin to join her husband, George Lindsay, who worked for several years as guide and launchmaster for Les Murrell's small tourism operation on Lake Manapouñ and Doubtful Sound. It was eventually taken over by Les Hutchins and became the starting point for the successful company, Fiordland Travel Ltd. In her interview Gloria tells of her early life in Dunedin and what it was like moving to...
Dates: 2004

MORE, Rowland James (Roly) interviewed by Louis Norman Nuttall

 Record Group — Box 13
Identifier: H0288
Overview Rowland talks of background history of life in Riverton in the early 1920s and attending ‘Tech’ in Invercargill for 3 years. He lists the fishing fleet, recalls the Riverton Regattas, as well as the businesses in Riverton. On leaving school he went into the family business. He tells of the personalities who worked at the sawmill - local people who had lifelong employment there. He covers the working conditions and the steam engines built by Johnson’s Steam Engines in Invercargill. Rowland also...
Dates: 1999