Showing Captain Musick and crew alighting from the Sikorsky flying boat that brought him to New Zealand in 1937

Production date
1937
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Object detail

Accession number
04-1143
Description
Photograph with a cardboard mount showing a group of uniformed men walking at an angle to the right. All except one man are in uniform. The front man on the left is in a light coloured suit with a dark tie. They are walking along a wooden wharf. The group behind the two leaders are coming down the slop of a walkway that is set at a right angle over the water. A row boat is moored to the wharf on the left. A second rowboat is moored at the far end of the angled walkway. Behind this boat is are two men in uniform standing on a second wharf running at a right angle to the first wharf. They are facing the viewer. Behind both groups of men is a sea plane. It is moored with the tail section behind the group in the foreground and the wings behind both groups of men.
Marks
Presented by Eric Paton. Hand-written
Mr B. Armstrong Hand-written
Roy Miller Ink Stamp
Physical description
1 photograph : black and white ; 30 x 39 cm.
Credit Line
1937. Showing Captain Musick and crew alighting from the Sikorsky flying boat that brought him to New Zealand in 1937, 04-1143. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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