Photograph album: MV COASTAL TRADER (1972)

Maker
Were, Phillippa (b.1948)
Production date
1970s-1980s
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Object detail

Description
Photograph album with dark blue vinyl cover compiled by Phillippa (Pip) Were of her time working as a radio officer on-board the container ship MV COASTAL TRADER (1972).

Titled in handwriting on sticker on cover, For Coastal Trader ZMSF (radio call sign).

Contains photographs, postcards and newspaper clippings relating to her service between 1970s-1990s.

Subjects of inserted colour photographs include:

Page 1: Phillippa (Pip) Were at radio control desk 1974, and a 1983 portrait photograph. COASTAL TRADER, Lyttelton, 1974.

Page 2 - 3: Crew of COASTAL TRADER on a lifeboat on Lyttelton Harbour, 1974.

Page 4: [Ky Korea]

Page 5: Ship with bow into sea, waves crashing over deck. Three loose colour photographs ,crew in paper hats at dining table and playing cards.

Page 6: Postcards of Larnach Castle, with black and white printed information brochure on Larnach Castle inserted, annotated "Visited 26th Jan 1975, while in DN on survey, COASTAL TRADER'.

Page 7: Dry dock, Dunedin, 1974.

Page 8: Larnach Castle, postcards.

Page 9: Two views of navigation deck, man at desk, vessel not identified.

Page 12: Dunedin, Port Chalmers two views., At sea, two views.

Page 13: Otago Harbour.

Page 14: Taiaroa Head, Dunedin.

Page 15: Christmas on board, Phillippa (Pip) Were wearing her radio officers uniform, cap and New Zealand Shipping Corporation scarf, 1989.

Page 18: Harbour views [Wellington].

Page 19: NEW ZEALAND PACIFIC (1978 ) on wharf, wharf views, location unknown. Unidentified naval vessels at sea.

Page 20: Pip Reynolds (Phillippa (Pip) Were) R/O, 1983. Otago Harbour.

Page 22: Larnach Castle postcards, Newspaper clippings " List forces cargo ship back into port" New Zealand Herald, 15-16 June 1975, annotated; Not USSCo, SCNZ. "Coastal Trader on 100th round trip", The Press, Christchurch, 3 March 1976.

Page 24: Newspaper clipping, "Women at Sea", source unknown.

Page 26: Newspaper clipping, 'Ship dresses for farewell, Coastal Trader."Sharpen code will divide Ocean trade", sources unknown. WAITANGI (1974) from Caroline Bay, three views of ship and and harbour from shore.

Page 27: Newspaper clipping, "Setting up for ferry and trade still brush", New Zealand Herald, 11 March 1976.
Accession number
2009.213.38
Museum System ID
36731
Collection type
Collection
Phillippa Were
Classification
Maker and role
Were, Phillippa (b.1948): Compiler
Media/Material details
Album contains photographs, postcards and newspaper clippings.
Media/Materials
Vinyl: 0 - Whole
Cardboard: 0 - Whole
Paper: 0 - Whole
Plastic: 0 - Whole
Colour Print: 0 - Whole
Newsprint: 0 - Whole
Measurement details
3D objects (HxWxD): H 300 x W 275 x D 35mm: 0 - Whole
Production place and notes
Aotearoa New Zealand
On display?
Not on display
Record level
Item

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