The collection below are digitised images of a collection of lantern slides in the Wellington Museum of City and Sea collection. The digitisation was done by Claire Viscovic using Alexander Turnbull Library equipment. Grateful acknowledgement to David Waller of the Museum of Wellington City and Sea and David Adams and Claire Viscovic of the Alexander Turnbull Library.

The vast majority are taken between 1911 and 1914.

The value of this collection is difficult to over emphasize - there are many named images of vessels which have hitherto been known, but no good quality images of them have been in the public domain. Among these are the keelboats Ethel, Akitea, Nikau, Ngarau, Nanonya, White Heather, Iolanthe and Ruihi; and the named images of the "flatties". "Flattie" was the term applied to the hard-chined centreboard boats which in New Zealand, were first developed in Wellington from about 1900, and taken up nation-wide through the 1920s through the rest of the 20th Century. Now largely forgoten, they were the parent of the I, P, Y, and V classes. The "Sea Wren" type is informally applied. They were inspired by a design of that name published in The Rudder magazine.

KEELBOATS

Ailsa

Akitea

Amai and Lizzie

Atalanta

Ethel

Iolanthe

Iolanthe, Taipare, Donker (Nancy Stair)

Janet

Kotiri

Lizzie

Mahina

Mahina and Siren

Mahaki

Muritai (Rogue)

Nancy Stair

Nanonya

Naval cutter

Ngarau?

Nikau

Rawene

Rona

Ruihi

Taipare

Tangaroa

Viking

Wairere

Wairere II

Waitangi

White Heather

White Heather and Windward

White Wings

Windward

Windward and Taipare

Wylo

Xarifa

Xarifa and Thetis

Unknown

Unknown - probably Rawene

14 FOOT CENTREBOARDERS: FLATTIES AND SEA WREN TYPES

FLATTIES

Geisha

Geisha and other flatties

Nan

SEA WREN TYPES

Harrier

Tom Wilford

OTHER

Thorndon Dinghy Club

Capsizes

Not Wellington: Santanita and Valkyrie racing on the Solent, UK. A race for 100 pounds some time in the 1890s