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Banks Peninsula Cruising Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Arch 0070

Scope and Contents

The records of the Banks Peninsula Cruising Club include minutes; ledgers; correspondence; press clippings; photographs (including negatives) and reports.

Key records within the collection include two copies of "For those who sailed", verses by Elsie Locke inspired by the loss of two yachts in a storm during the Wellington-Lyttelton Centennial Yacht Race, 1951 and photocopies of police telegrams concerning, and photographs of, Count Felix von Luckner, German prisoner of war on Ripapa Island, 1917-1918.

Also includes negatives of the Club's historical photographs, including a Dec. 1901 print of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ship Discovery in dry dock at Lyttelton, in preparation for Scott's 1901-1904 Antarctic expedition. There are also two portraits of Count Felix von Luckner, and a print of his ship Seeadler, given to the Club when he visited them in 1938.

Dates

  • 1932-1994

Creator

Extent

16 Boxes (25 Volumes, 9 Folders, 4 Envelopes; 52 Photographs and Negatives; 5 Cassette Tapes; 1 Microfilm Reel and 52 Slides)

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

The records in this collection have been arranged according to the functional operational activities of the Banks Peninsula Cruising Club.

Physical Location

Shelf TU B 4d - Shelf TU B 4f, Tūranga, Tuakiri floor, ANZC Archives

ANZC Archival Store, Outsize - Consult Archivist for access

Title
Banks Peninsula Cruising Club records
Description rules
International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Christchurch City Libraries Archives Collection Repository

Contact:
Tūranga
60 Cathedral Square
Central City
Christchurch Canterbury 8011 New Zealand