Schooner Waihopai at corner Conon and Tay Streets

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Identifier: D27520001_001

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Schooner Waihopai at corner Conon and Tay Streets

Dates

c.1867

Summary

Features the schooner (or scow) Waihopai which was built outside Mr A. H. Puettelkow's Provincial Hotel on the south west corner of the intersection of Tay and Conon Streets, Block XII, Section 14.

Photographer unknown.

See photo 6 for his other boat the Danzig, and the hotel also features in photo number 42.

See Linked Records for the rest of the album.

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Biographical / Historical

Caption from Southland Times, 10 December 1924, p.17: A strange sight. The scow “Waihopai” being built in Tay Street by Mr A. H. Puettelkow, owner of the Provincial Hotel. Mr Puettelkow also built the “Danzig,” named after the town in Pomerania, where he came from. In the early days Invercargill had a vigorous boat-building industry, but the change to steel made the prolongation of this activity impossible, though small craft are still constructed at intervals.

See the Southland Times, 13th November, 1867, p.2 for details of it's launch.

The Danzig (photo 6) and Waihopai were launched into the Invercargill Estuary and Puettelkow engaged them for coastal freight service.