MISS BRETT
Classic displacement launch Miss Brett, built for the famous cream trip at the Bay of Islands. 40′ loa, 10’9″ beam, 2’11” draft. Kauri carvel planked, launched 1924, powered by 100 hp 6 cyld Ford diesel.
Must be loads of history out there on this old girl. Designer / builder??
Sorry about the photos, ex trademe & very poor quality 😦
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Hi All. I have a record for Miss Brett from the British NZ Register of Ships that says she was built in 1927 by Lang at Russell. I do not know whether they were referring to R. (Dick) Lang. However, the register entry was created in 1949 so it is possible that the building date could be in error.
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Alan,
That’s right. In fact Susan was born after he was shot down over Germany. She’s been to his grave in Germany. She and her mother came to NZ in 1946. She had seen neither NGATAKI nor SEAWARD before this morning. Spooky stuff.
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From memory Harold, she never meet her Dad ? a war child in the UK while Dick was flying sorties for the RAF. Unfortunately Dick was shot down & never saw his daughter. Correct ? or have I got it all wrong.
Harold update –
Alan, that’s right. In fact Susan was born after he was shot down over Germany. She’s been to his grave in Germany. She and her mother came to NZ in 1946. She had seen neither NGATAKI nor SEAWARD before this morning. Spooky stuff.
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Talking to Barbara & David Cooke today at the Ngataki re-launch & evidently at one stage Miss Brett was berthed at Wairau Cove (Milford Creek) & owned by a lady who used to commercially fish off her & sell the catch at the boat.
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Not to mention SEAWARD. I had the privilege of showing her to Dick Wellington’s daughter. A bit of a lump in the throat over that.
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Great to see so many WW followers admiring the newly restored Ngataki , and even Swirly World
It is truly a broad church that we belong to!
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There is a kernel of truth in Robin, Earl of Huntingdon’s, remarks. He should know, having suffered under King John so much and being incalculably old himself.
The singularity of Harold is over.
WW’s Alan H, in his infinite wisdom, decided that the original Harold has had so many prostheses, implants and modifications that he must join the ranks of other androids/robots like R2D2 and be allotted a unit number.
In addition, an obsession/compulsion, which he secretly shares with KR over names, prevents Alan from continuing with Harold as “Harold”, simpliciter, as there was a Saxon king of that name (died 1066) and the name was taken.
It is hoped that the newly minted name has not been used before in this universe, although it is possible it has been used in one of the parallel universes known only to KR.
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What with all the hoo-ha on this site regarding name changes pro and con, surely we can draw the line at contributors names?
I see Harold (singular) is now harold531harold. That’s an awful lot of Harolds is such a short time. We had enough bother with the first one but with all these other ones to contend with, rivalling those endless Saxon kings and earls we got bored with at school, I fear that we will lose track of his provenance and assume him to be some sort of shoddy rebuild.
Over to you Ken.
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She was advertised on TradeMe in 2012 at Picton as being built by Deemings at Opua in 1924 for Fullers for cream trip work, but she was actually built for them by Dick Lang at Russell in 1927. He went up there from Auckland to build her. Fullers renamed her KNOXIE II around 1928, probably because she was a companion to their KNOXIE which was built in Auckland in December 1912 by Brown and Dalton for passenger work but gravitated North and was bought by Fullers by 1928. She was called KNOXIE because she had a 4 cylinder Knox marine engine initially. Ray Morey knows this complex Fullers stuff inside out.
Typical Lang hull.
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