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Boats and boating

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

BROTHERSTON, Peter Alexander interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group
Identifier: H0544
Overview Peter's immediate environment, as a young child, was the granite, tree-covered mountains and clear waters of the Hollyford Valley. As a youth and into early adulthood it was the tussock country of the Te Anau Basin that he frequented. He was also among the early contract staff to carry out the initial task of levelling swathes of shrub and bush so that it could become productive agricultural soil. Leaving for a few years to live further south, Peter returned and worked for the Fiordland...
Dates: 2005
Found in: Southland Oral History Project / BROTHERSTON, Peter Alexander interviewed by Morag Forrester

BURROWS, Harold Charles (Snow) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group
Identifier: H0534
Overview "Snow" Burrows is the eldest child of one the founding members of the Fiordland Travel Company, Lawson Burrows. A book by Lawson entitled "Te Anau Anchorage" gives a personal history of what led to the creation of the company in its early years before it was sold in 1966. In this interview Snow gives his own account of living and working in Te Anau and Fiordland from the 1940s to the present day.
Dates: 2004
Found in: Southland Oral History Project / BURROWS, Harold Charles (Snow) interviewed by Morag Forrester

'City of Dunedin' paddle steamer at Invercargill Jetty

 Digital Image
Identifier: D27520001_093
Dates: c.1860
Found in: Invercargill City Council Archives

Fortrose Boating Club

 Record Group
Identifier: A0610
Overview Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1912 - 2013
Found in: Invercargill City Council Archives / Fortrose Boating Club

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
Found in: Invercargill City Council Archives / A0724, Documenting Our Heritage: Southland / Competition entries

Greenpoint Ship Graveyard

 Digital Image
Identifier: D28550017
Dates: 2024
Found in: Invercargill City Council Archives

Invercargill Yacht Club

 Record Group
Identifier: A0061
Dates: Majority of material found within 1929 - 2010
Found in: Invercargill City Council Archives / Invercargill Yacht Club

Jellicoe Sea Scouts

 Record Group
Identifier: A0075
Dates: Majority of material found within 1941 - 1945
Found in: Invercargill City Council Archives / Jellicoe Sea Scouts

Ketch Danzig in Conon Street

 Digital Image
Identifier: D27520001_006
Dates: c.1866
Found in: Invercargill City Council Archives

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
Found in: Invercargill City Council Archives / A0632, Sylvia Baxter Photograph Collection / Photographs

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