Mystery Launch 23/10

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photos ex Ron W & Harold Kid

Harold thinks its a Collings & Bell work boat but we are all scratching our heads to ID her any further. When you consider there were 1000’s of these ‘little’ launches built, we might be scratching for a while 🙂

Harold has sent in a better pic of the launch which he took off  the Collings & Bell original glass plate. You can see a square-rigger in the background.

Harold Kidd Update

I have always thought that this is probably C. & B. of which there were 3, this one being launched in November 1912. I have a much better copy of this image with more background.The other two were 20 footers of the same general configuration but the 1912 version was a 32 footer. Maybe it’s a 20 footer? The sidelight boxes look pretty large.  I’m pretty certain it’s a Chas Collings negative from his quarter-plate camera but I’ve always thought it was a later image as it is associated in my Collings collection with images from the 1930s. I’ll check with other pics.

Update #2

She’s not any of the 3 C. & B.’s but very similar. The last of the C. & B.s had the same little dodger (a very early example of a dodger installed ab initio), the same bollard forward, but her foredeck was raised. Tentatively, I think this is OZONE, built for Fred Woolley in June 1912, probably off the same moulds as the 32ft C. & B. This OZONE is NOT to be confused with the Percy McIntosh-built OZONE which did a lot of game-fishing in the Bay of Islands and is now rumoured to be at Mahurangi. This OZONE (if it is her) was a total wreck at Tawharanui Point, Takatu in January 1930.

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8 thoughts on “Mystery Launch 23/10”

  1. The dorades are different though. E & P have that single giant foghorn type whereas this boat has a couple of more delicate jobs. No name on her so she might not be either of E or P but definitely a very similar/same design.

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  4. Baden, who was the nice little counter stern boat built by M & T for towing logs on Lake Brunner. She was at Hobsonville last time I saw her. Miller and Tunnage just packed several hands from the yard and they built her and launcher her from local timbers on the shores of the lake. They didn’t know that they couldn’t do that sort of thing, so they just went ahead and did.

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  5. Update from Tony Mitchell This is one of two Launches EUNICE & PATSY.They were built by Dick Lang for the Rotoiti Timber Company and launched in March 1921 They were 35ft in length and fitted with Heavy Duty Twigg engines for towing log barges for transporting native logs to Rotoiti Timber Co mill in Okawa Bay.Both Launches were transported to Rotorua by rail it is possible that in later years Eunice may have gone to the Kaipara

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  6. She’s not any of the 3 C.& B.’s but very similar. The last of the C. & B.s had the same little dodger (a very early example of a dodger installed ab initio), the same bollard forward, but her foredeck was raised. Tentatively, I think this is OZONE, built for Fred Woolley in June 1912, probably off the same moulds as the 32ft C. & B. This OZONE is NOT to be confused with the Percy McIntosh-built OZONE which did a lot of game-fishing in the Bay of Islands and is now rumoured to be at Mahurangi. This OZONE (if it is her) was a total wreck at Tawharanui Point, Takatu in January 1930.

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  8. I have always thought that this is probably C.& B. of which there were 3, this one being launched in November 1912. I have a much better copy of this image with more background.The other two were 20 footers of the same general configuration but the 1912 version was a 32 footer. Maybe it’s a 20 footer? The sidelight boxes look pretty large. I’m pretty certain it’s a Chas Collings negative from his quarter-plate camera but I’ve always thought it was a later image as it is associated in my Collings collection with images from the 1930s. I’ll check with other pics.

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