
PILOT
Now while the vessel in todays story is a woody, the location is certainly not the Waitemata 🙂
The motorboat in the above photo is another from the Auckland Museum, Tudor Collins collection & was emailed to me by Ken Ricketts.
Are any of the woodys able to ID the location, date etc & possibly ID the vessel? Coconut palms in the background, islanders* helping with the loading – could be Suva, Nukualofa, Avatiu, Apia.
* not sure that islanders is a PC word, maybe I should have used ‘PI’ (Pacific Islander)
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An old Pacific hand, Owen Manktelow, thinks it could be at Vuda Point, Lautoka, where there is a gas storage facility.
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Probably taken on Collins’ trip to Fiji in 1951. Those are gas bottles being unloaded, surely.
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Lister ???
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That is a good useful boat. She’d acquit herself in the rough stuff. Wonde what that engine was.
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