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Correspondence, bills, etc. for the years 1898-1899, 1904 & 1909

Correspondence received and miscellaneous papers including delivery notes, notes of timber etc., tax returns, employment of Clifton and Carlyle Wilson and Mervyn Cato deferring their call up for military service.

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

14. "Leeta May" (T.H. Spaulding), "Stanley", "Westward" 1917-1924
15. "Marina" renamed "Miena" (Jones & Boxall), "Alice" renamed "Kintail" 1933-5
16. "Alice M" ("Kintail"), "Iolanthe", "Gladys S"
17. "Iolanthe" (R. Hickman) and repair of "Ventura" including costing details
18. "Mistral III" (G. Rex), "Jean Nichols" (W. Nichols) c1940
19. "Jean Nichols" c1940
20. "Sir John Franklin" & other vessels 1941-1945
21. "Derwent Hunter" (A.J. Drysdale) 1943-1945
22. Proposed vessel for A.J. Drysdale (not built) 1946, 1949
23. Rough notebook of measurements, no date, possibly for "Sir John Franklin"
24. Notes of weights and measures, displacement, ballast, sail area

Notes of man hours spent, wages, costs, and some specifications for various vessels, including Evening Star, steam ketches Lottah and Nubeena, May Queen, Thistle, Victoria Louise, and S.S. Ronnie.

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

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.

Pencil sketches thought to be by Walter Wilson: "Lottah" on slips 1894; "His Holiness the Popes's armed screw yacht 'Immaculate Conception' (3 masted sailing vessel with funnel) 1894"; flower drawing.

Stanley (2 masted ketch) (print and glass negative)
Rooganah at sea 1909 postcard with birthday greetings to "Brightie" from Mother

Press cuttings regarding the launching of the ketch Marina built by Wilson Brothers for for H. Jones and Co. for the timber trade, The Marina is an auxiliary ketch of the following dimensions: - Length overall, 100ft.; extreme breadth, 23ft. 6 in.; depth of hold, 7 ft. 6 in.; gross tonnage, 100 tons; displacement when loaded, about 280 tons. She will be powered by a 70 h.p. Diesel engine by Ruston
Lister, which will be installed after the vessel reaches Hobart. When put into commission she will be employed by H.Jones and Co. Pty. Ltd. in the timber trade between Launceston and Mel- bourne, freighting timber from the firm's Warrentinna mill to Melbourne,
and carrying general cargo as back freight. The Mercury Tuesday 18 December 1934.

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.

Includes photographs of John Wilson and family (including wife Dinah, daughter Brightie (Mrs. W.T. Harris), John Wilson with a keel; son Walter Wilson's family (Elsie, Ruby, Frank, Clifton, Tasman), Walter in dinghy, Sydney Wilson. Also boats: Utieka III (materials cost 662, wages 978), Laleeta, Alcairo 1911, Jean Nichols being built and sailing 1923-4, Marina, Eva Leeta, ketch Stanley 1910, Lialeeta 1913 (John Wilson's last boat), Rooganah (100 tons 3 masted 1909), Good Intent built 1877, Leeta May 1919, Good Templar part built on slips 1874, Derwent Hunter 1946, Lenna, Sir John Franklin on slips 1943 and built (taken over by Government for service in New Guinea and sunk on reef), Alice M. 1904, Doris 1906, SS Dover on slips 1908, Mistrall III, Huon Chief repaired.
Also news cuttings about boats, including Huon Chief (Derwent Hunter), the Yard, obituaries of John Wilson, Walter Wilson etc. and sympathy cards; poems by several members of family; copy of specifications for oil engined boat for Jones & Co. 1907. (35 mm negative film taken for University Library 1967)

Includes notes about boats and the Wilson shipyard and quotations of poems by John Wilson "master builder and wit"

Correspondence from Leslie Norman to Council Clerk, Cygnet, about John & Walter Wilson for inclusion in his book, Pioneer Shipping of Tasmania (1937). Memo to Walter Wilson 20 Dec 1949 regarding "Haunts of the Blue Whale"

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.

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

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