Registration paper, Rita
Production date
1898-1901
Object detail
Brief Description
Registration paper for Rita.
Official Number 37118. Built in Auckland, August 1898 by W H Brown. Date and Port of Registry, No 5 of 1898 Napier. She was registered on 12 September 1898.
Rita has one deck, two masts, round stern, rigged ketch and she is made of wood. Screw Steamer, Length 60.6 feet; breadth, 13.7 feet; depth, 7.7 feet. Rita weighs 40.18 tons.
1. Certificate of Survey, 12 September 1898.
2. Memorandum: to the Registrar of Shipping registering of Rita at Napier.
3. Declaration of shipbuilder Wm Brown of Auckland that the Rita has one deck and two masts, Ketch rigged and was built by him in 1898 and launched on 24 August 1898 on account of J Corry Jun, of Napier.
4. Letter from Wm Brown to measuring surveyor asking him to measure the steamer. 16 August 1898.
5. Carving note of Rita, her name and Port of Registry are painted on her stern. 9 September 1898.
6. Measurement certificate, 8 August 1898.
7. Declaration of ownership, John Corry Junior, Draper, Napier.
8. Transfer of registry of Rita to the Port of Invercargill, Samuel Tannatt Nevill, sole owner. 11 October 1901.
9. Declaration of ownership, Samuel Tannatt Nevill, Dunedin. 11 October 1901.
Official Number 37118. Built in Auckland, August 1898 by W H Brown. Date and Port of Registry, No 5 of 1898 Napier. She was registered on 12 September 1898.
Rita has one deck, two masts, round stern, rigged ketch and she is made of wood. Screw Steamer, Length 60.6 feet; breadth, 13.7 feet; depth, 7.7 feet. Rita weighs 40.18 tons.
1. Certificate of Survey, 12 September 1898.
2. Memorandum: to the Registrar of Shipping registering of Rita at Napier.
3. Declaration of shipbuilder Wm Brown of Auckland that the Rita has one deck and two masts, Ketch rigged and was built by him in 1898 and launched on 24 August 1898 on account of J Corry Jun, of Napier.
4. Letter from Wm Brown to measuring surveyor asking him to measure the steamer. 16 August 1898.
5. Carving note of Rita, her name and Port of Registry are painted on her stern. 9 September 1898.
6. Measurement certificate, 8 August 1898.
7. Declaration of ownership, John Corry Junior, Draper, Napier.
8. Transfer of registry of Rita to the Port of Invercargill, Samuel Tannatt Nevill, sole owner. 11 October 1901.
9. Declaration of ownership, Samuel Tannatt Nevill, Dunedin. 11 October 1901.
Production date
1898-1901
Production place
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Printed and handwritten in black ink on paper.
Media/Materials
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject date
1898-1901
Other number(s)
71018
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