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    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...
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  • plaque Illustration of the SS Tararua wreck SS Wairarapa wreck Illustration of the Mount Tarawera eruption Clipper ship Fiery Star SS Penguin Wreck of the General...
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  • interurban commuter rail service SS Wairarapa, a ship that sank in 1894 Wairarapa (gastropod), a genus of sea snails Radio Wairarapa, a radio station This disambiguation...
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    coastal steamer. The island's isolation was highlighted when the ship SS Wairarapa was wrecked off its coast in 1894, with the loss of 121 lives, and the...
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  • Elizabeth. On their journey to New Zealand, they survived the sinking of the SS Wairarapa. Brodie, James W. "Mariano Vella". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography...
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  • used from 1882 for about 15 years: the S.S. Hauroto, the S.S. Manapouri, the S.S. Tarawera, and the S.S. Wairarapa: Sailing from Port Chalmers, she (the...
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    working off-island. The remote north was the site of the sinking of the SS Wairarapa around midnight of 29 October 1894. This was one of New Zealand's worst...
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    Fyfe and Graham become the first people to climb Mt Cook. Wreck of SS Wairarapa. 1896 National Council of Women is founded. The Brunner Mine disaster...
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    Union Company (redirect from Union SS Co)
    services Freight & Container Transportation December 1971 page 4 Sale of Union SS Co Australian Transport January 1972 page 35 "New Zealand Maritime Index"...
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    predeceased by his wife and son who were killed during the sinking of the SS Wairarapa off Great Barrier Island in October 1894. "Obituary – Mr. Henry Baldwin"...
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  • October 1894 when Waterhouse's wife and daughter drowned in the wreck of SS Wairarapa on Great Barrier Island. He was left as a widower with five children...
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  • qualify for the Union Steam Ship Company. He was the third engineer on SS Wairarapa when it sunk off of Great Barrier Island in 1894, with the loss of 130...
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    36°04′03″S 175°21′07″E / 36.0674°S 175.3519°E / -36.0674; 175.3519 (SS Wairarapa) HMNZS Wellington  Royal New Zealand Navy 13 November 2005 A Leander-class...
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    into liquidation in 1878 due to losses on a ship for the Fiji trade, the SS Llewellyn. On 10 January 1878 ASP had sold Southern Cross for £7000, Go-Ahead...
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  • Fish Mayor of Wellington – Alfred Brandon 30 October: Luxury steamer SS Wairarapa, carrying 230 passengers from Sydney bound for Auckland, is wrecked on...
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    charitable funds, including for the sinking on 29 October 1894 of the SS Wairarapa, which was one of New Zealand's deadliest disasters. The next mayoral...
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    Auckland during his mayoralty, leaving Lyttelton on 7 August 1885 on the SS Wairarapa. He attended the annual prize giving at the Auckland Bowling and Lawn...
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    4–5 hours to walk. Ngātiwai have traditionally lived in the area. The SS Wairarapa ran aground at Miners Head on 24 October 1894. Survivors who reached...
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    The White Swan Hotel, Greytown (category Buildings and structures in the Wairarapa)
    the rescue of the passengers and crew of the SS White Swan, a steamer that struck a rock off the Wairarapa coast south of Castlepoint, on 29 June 1862...
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    SS Georgia was a passenger and cargo ship that was launched in Germany in 1891 as Pickhuben. The Hamburg America Line acquired her in 1892, and renamed...
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  • condition with most of the ship relatively intact and sitting upright." "SS CRAIGALLION Yard No 29 Ramage-Ferguson". www.leithshipyards.com. Archived...
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    17 Sep: Zhiyuan 17 Sep: Jingyuan 17 Sep: Yangwei 26 Sep: Ohio 24 Oct: Wairarapa 23 Nov: Ozama 22 Dec: Abana c. Dec: Inishtrahull Other incidents 12 Feb:...
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  • Reserve Pratts Road Historic Reserve Smeltinghouse Historic Reserve S.S. Wairarapa Graves (Tapuwai Point) Historic Reserve St Johns Redoubt Historic Reserve...
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    SS Go Ahead was a twin screw-steamer, launched on the afternoon of Saturday 20 April 1867 by Seath and Connell, of Rutherglen, for the Clyde Shipping Company...
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    17 Sep: Zhiyuan 17 Sep: Jingyuan 17 Sep: Yangwei 26 Sep: Ohio 24 Oct: Wairarapa 23 Nov: Ozama 22 Dec: Abana c. Dec: Inishtrahull Other incidents 12 Feb:...
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  • shipwreck that could have sunk a government', Masterton, New Zealand, Wairarapa Archive p 58. The Cyclopedia Company (1902), op. cit., p 95. The Cyclopedia...
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  • coaching inn in Wales The White Swan Hotel, Greytown, a hotel in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand Any one of several species of swan White Swan (prison)...
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    the 'Edmond' at Kilkee, 1850". Clare Library. Retrieved 10 February 2013. "SS Koning der Nederlanden". wrecksite.eu. 2001. Retrieved 2014-04-21. Means,...
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  • Dominion-Post, 5 October 2015, http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wairarapa/72592677/150-years-of-news--pahiatua-camp-a-homage-to-united-nations-principles...
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    SS Ohio was a wooden hulled Great Lakes freighter that served on the Great Lakes of North America from her construction in 1875, to her sinking in September...
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