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'Huia' wooden schooner [PRG 1373/41/7] • Photograph

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'Huia' wooden schooner 200 tons [wooden sailing vessel, later fitted with auxiliary engines. Originally: wood, 2 mast schooner, ON102268, 204 gross, 196 net tons. Built 1894 J Barbour, Aratapu, Kaipara, New Zealand, 115.1 x 25.2 x 11.5. Alt. 1898 - re-rigged as topsail schooner, and an aux. engine installed - 80bhp oil engine by Union Gas Eng. Co. San Francisco and 224 gross, 200 net tons. Re-engined in 1922 and now measured 251 gross, 166 net tons. Re-engined in 1931. Topsails removed in 1945. Owners: E Mitchelson and Brothers, registered Auckland. 1900 George McKenzie (and sometimes others), Kaipara. 1912 Nobel Explosives Co. of Glasgow, registered Auckland. 1925 Nobel (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. 1950 Huia Trading Co. registered Suva. Wrecked on Komekame Reef off Cape Queen Charlotte, New Caledonia bound Noumea-Vila. See 'The Log of the Huia' by CW Hawkins, Collins, New Zealand]

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Physical description

Photograph (B&W print); 15 cm x 10.8 cm

Dates / Publication details

1900s

Collection

Part of A.D. Edwardes Collection

Subject

Huia (Ship)

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General notes

From a volume titled 'New Zealand Owned Wooden and Iron and Steel Sailing Vessels'.

This section comprises 'New Zealand Owned Wooden 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

06/09/2019

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,552 x 4,939 pixels (17.5 MP)

Size

52.65 MB

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