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Pages in category "Shipwrecks of New Zealand" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
There is a long history of shipwrecks and vessels capsizing or being lost in the seas around the Southland Region of New Zealand. [1] The worst incident was on 29 April 1881, when the SS Tararua struck Otara reef 13 km (8.1 mi) off Waipapa Point. [2] [3] [4] Of the ship's 151 passengers, only 20 survived.
SS Tararua was a passenger steamer that struck the reef off Waipapa Point in the Catlins on 29 April 1881, and sank the next day, in the worst civilian shipping disaster in New Zealand's history. [1] Of the 151 passengers and crew on board, only 20 survived the shipwreck. [2]
SS Wairarapa was a New Zealand ship of the late 19th century plying the route between Auckland, New Zealand and Australia. It came to tragic fame when it hit a reef at the northern edge of Great Barrier Island, about 100 km out from Auckland, and sank. The death toll of around 130 people remains one of the largest such losses in the country's ...
The HMNZS Manawanui was the first ship New Zealand had lost since World War II, the BBC reported, and was one of nine ships in the country's small navy fleet. The Manawanui had been dispatched to ...
Grafton was a 56-ton schooner sailing out of Sydney during the 1860s that was wrecked on 3 January 1864 in the north arm of Carnley Harbour, Auckland Island, one of the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands, nearly 480 kilometres (300 mi) south of the South Island. Her castaway crew waited a year for a ship to come to their rescue, which, it soon ...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) -A Royal New Zealand Navy vessel ran aground and sank off Samoa but all 75 crew and passengers on board were safe, the New Zealand Defence Force said in a statement on Sunday.
New Zealand’s Navy lost its first ship since World War II after the HMNZS Manawanui sank on a reef off the coast of Samoa on Sunday creating a potential environmental disaster in waters used for ...