Boatbuilding -- Tasmania

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John Wilson & Sons Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC W6
  • Collection
  • 1848-1949

Collection consists of correspondence, letter books, diaries, notebooks and photographs relating to John Wilson & Sons boatbuilders.

John Wilson

Letter Books

Copies or drafts of letters sent relating to ship building, orders, supplies, including some details of labour, timber etc. for specified vessels and miscellaneous notes.

  1. General inquiries etc. 1917-1936
  2. "Melba" letters and some time and labour details 1919-1921
  3. "Eva Leeta" for T.H. Spaulding - letters 1921-1923
  4. "Utieka" for I.E. Giles - letters 1923-1924
  5. "Huon Chief" and "Anita" letters 1937-1939
  6. "Jean Nichols" for W. Nichols, Stanley letters etc. 1940
  7. "Sir John Franklin" letters and notes 1940-1941

John Wilson

List of ships built

List of ships built and for whom, from Huon Belle built in 1866 by Colin Walker for whom John Wilson worked, Good Intent the first ship built by John Wilson at Martins Point in 1877, One and All, ketch built for Andrewartha in 1878, Birngana, Lottah, Ronnie, Rooganah, etc. to Derwent Hunter built for A.J. Drysdale 1843.

John Wilson

Specifications

Miscellaneous specifications for boats for Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club and 2 other vessels unnamed.

John Wilson

Specifications

Specifications for various vessels : "Stanley" for Richard Leggett of Stanley 1906; "Rooganah" a ketch for H. Jones & Co. and Captain Heather (carvel built, length 85 ft. beam 25', bird figure head, completed 1909) December 1907; "Alcairo", auxiliary oil ketch for George Dunn Bennett of Geeveston 1910-1911.

John Wilson

Work Diaries & Notebooks

Notebooks noting time, labour, materials, miscellaneous notes, sometimes costing, some draft letters, etc. (most in old school exercise books).

  1. "Leeta May" (T.H. Spaulding), "Stanley", "Westward" 1917-1924
  2. "Marina" renamed "Miena" (Jones & Boxall), "Alice" renamed "Kintail" 1933-5
  3. "Alice M" ("Kintail"), "Iolanthe", "Gladys S"
  4. "Iolanthe" (R. Hickman) and repair of "Ventura" including costing details
  5. "Mistral III" (G. Rex), "Jean Nichols" (W. Nichols) c1940
  6. "Jean Nichols" c1940
  7. "Sir John Franklin" & other vessels 1941-1945
  8. "Derwent Hunter" (A.J. Drysdale) 1943-1945
  9. Proposed vessel for A.J. Drysdale (not built) 1946, 1949
  10. Rough notebook of measurements, no date, possibly for "Sir John Franklin"
  11. Notes of weights and measures, displacement, ballast, sail area

John Wilson