Image from the Eric Maple Lewis personal collection.
Aerial oblique view of the passenger ship TEV Rangatira aground on rocks near Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula.
This accident happened on 29 December 1940 and was re-floated within a day. The date from the Wigram negative register is most likely the date of registration, not the date of exposure.
Original RNZAF negative number obscured by paper fibres on the reverse of the print.
Image from the Eric Maple Lewis personal collection.
Aerial oblique view of the passenger ship TEV Rangatira aground on rocks near Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula.
This accident happened on 29 December 1940 and was re-floated within a day. The date from the Wigram negative register is most likely the date of registration, not the date of exposure.
Original RNZAF negative number WgF1099.
Image from the Foster personal album.
"Baffin crash at Pidgeon Bay [sic] RNZAF Territorial P/O Bob _"
Baffin upside down in Little Pigeon Bay, a row boat with two men are at right.
Believed to be Pilot Officer Robert Steel Grant.