MYSTERY WOODY ON THE WAITEMATA – Aenone > India
Todays woody photo is slightly familiar but I could fine any previous reference to it on WW.
The photo comes to us from a Frank Hellsten post on the ‘Friends of Vintage,Classic & Traditional Boats’ fb page. Frank restored and colorized the photo, which was taken by a William Leonard Fletcher and resides in the Auckland maritime museum archives. No dates.
Frank commented about the gent wearing a tam o’ shanter hat (a Scottish bonnet worn by men)
I tagged a yacht but she’s really a launch 🙂
Any idea of the boats ID
UPDATE – Nathan Herbert ID her as Aenone, then Roy Jones advised she now named India and resides in Blenheim as a steamboat.
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JB- Anson was William Ryland Anson, who was a similar age to my Gt Grandfather who was born 1907. Anson may have been born between then and around 1915
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Working from Anson Shakespear’s biography https://www.wellycom.net/2020/07/16/robert-shakespear-a-conservation-pioneer/, we can date the image to pre-1910, which matches the photographer’s timeline and the fact that the image (as well as others in the Maritime Museum’s collection) is glass plate.
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Check out Iononie/India. Search -there’s a good summary on WW October 2017. Nice to see that pic.
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Hi there, the mystery craft on the Waitamata, colourised and with the ladies in the stern is now India, owned by Rick Osborne in Blenheim. She is a steamboat at present and frequently is seen on runs with The Picton Clinker & Classic Boat Club. Cheers, Roy Jones, (Secretary) ________________________________
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INONIE (Enone, Aenone) > India October 26 2017 WW will get you most of what you need to know about this gorgeous wee gem.
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it’s the Aenone, with Anson Shakespear and his aunts Kittty and Jo aboard
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