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'Valmarie' wooden schooner [PRG 1373/40/43] • Photograph

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Summary

'Valmarie' wooden schooner 288 tons. 'Valmarie' aground on Farewell Spit in New Zealand [wooden 3 mast schooner, 288 gross, 246 net tons. ON136445, 130.0 x 30.5 x 11.6. Built 1919 Purdon and Featherstone, Hobart. Owners: Rosenfeld and Co. Ltd, registered Sydney. Stranded Farewell Spit, NZ. Feb. 16, 1922 and abandoned as a total loss but later salvaged, repaired and re-registered as 'Mapu' in Wellington. converted to a hulk in 1929 and register closed]

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Physical description

Photograph (B&W print); 8.6 cm x 13.7 cm

Dates / Publication details

1900s

Collection

Part of A.D. Edwardes Collection

Subject

Valmarie (Ship)
Mapu (Ship)

Catalogue record

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General notes

From a volume titled 'Tasmanian Owned Vessels and Tasmanian Shipping Views'.

This section comprises 'Tasmanian Owned Sailing Vessels'.

This image is from the A.D. Edwardes Collection of about 8,000 photographs, mostly of sailing ships from around the world, taken between about 1865 and 1920. Mounted in 91 albums, the photographs are arranged by country of ownership, with some special volumes such as 'Shipping at Port Adelaide' and 'South Australian outports'. Additional information, giving the history of the ships where known, has been provided by maritime historian, Ron Parsons.

Digitisation information

Date

26/08/2019

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

5,606 x 3,652 pixels (20.5 MP)

Size

61.44 MB

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