• Akaroa was a Norwegian sailing ship that was torpedoed by the German submarine SM U-19 in the English Channel, 70 miles west off the Casquets, Guernsey...
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    composite shield volcanoes[clarification needed] (Lyttelton formed first, then Akaroa), and the smaller Mt Herbert Volcanic Group. These formed due to intraplate...
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    of Ushant. Akaroa 1 September 1917 A barque that was torpedoed by U-19 49°21′N 4°25′W / 49.350°N 4.417°W / 49.350; -4.417 (Akaroa (barque)) CSS Alabama...
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  • Clyde was a wooden barque of 562 tons net register. It was built in Australia in 1874, and was wrecked near Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, on 6 November...
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  • Onawe peninsula, in Akaroa Harbour. Construction of this pā, which was defended by about 400 men, was begun by the Māori of Akaroa and the surrounding...
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    Wellington. He then briefly travelled to Australia, leaving with his wife on the barque Tory on 16 December for Melbourne. He subsequently returned to Lyttelton...
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  • October  United Kingdom Osbourne, Graham & Co. Sunderland, County Durham Akaroa Barque For Shaw, Savill & Co. 25 October  United Kingdom Messrs. Thomas Royden...
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    Samuel Farr (architect) (category People from Akaroa)
    England to Auckland, but significant shipping problems saw him end up in Akaroa in 1850 instead. From 1862, he lived in Christchurch. Farr has a number...
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    Zealand Company. He was thus an early visitor to what is now Christchurch, Akaroa, Port Chalmers and Bluff. He still had the opportunity to visit and name...
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  • Roslin Castle (also called Roslyn Castle) was a barque of 450 tons built in 1819 at Bristol. She was a merchant ship that also made five voyages transporting...
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  • Otago Times. 23 October 1866. Ingram et al. 2007, p. 165. "Loss of the Barque Laughing Water Off Orepuki". The Colonist. 1 February 1870. Archived from...
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  • January 1914, completed 6 June 1914, maiden voyage 1 July 1914, renamed Akaroa 1932, scrapped 1954. SS Mississippi, passenger ship for Atlantic Transport...
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    members are elected from 4 subdivisions within the Banks Peninsula Ward (Akaroa, Mount Herbert, Lyttelton, Wairewa) alongside the Ward Councillor. District...
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  • DUNEDIN – 1879". Retrieved 15 September 2016. "NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS – BARQUE LIZZIE BELL SINKING – 1901". Retrieved 15 September 2016. Three more died...
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    Islands to Bluff. It also reached Westport on the West Coast at 2:30 pm. At Akaroa and Gisborne the wave was in the 2–3-metre range. The waves at Port Charles...
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    the South Island to consider further sites, where they made contact at Akaroa with the fledgling French colony established there under the auspices of...
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    as the 'Surveyors' Arms' on what is now Beach Street and was licensed by Akaroa-based magistrate John Watson in 1846. On 23 February 1846 the ship Mary...
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    Times. 9 October 1866 – via Papers Past. "Inquiry into the wreck of the barque Juno on Farewell Spit". Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle. 1 November...
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  • ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during September 1917. "Akaroa". Uboat.net. Retrieved 27 September 2012. "Amiral Olry". Uboat.net. Retrieved...
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    PENINSULA built by Grangemouth Dockyard Company in 1889 for Peninsula & Akaroa Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Lyttelton, Passenger / Cargo". www.clydeships...
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  • Kingdom The barque foundered in a typhoon 50 nautical miles (93 km) east of Formosa. All nineteen people on board were rescued by a French barque. She was...
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  •  Prussia The ship was driven ashore at Heringsdorf. Druid  United Kingdom The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. All on board were rescued by Cove ( United...
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  • rescued. She was on a voyage from Port Nicholson to Akaroa, New Zealand. Chevalier  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at "Rennoe" with...
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  • Times. No. 27653. London. 2 April 1873. col F, p. 11. "Foundering of a Barque from Port Talbot off Cape Clear". Western Mail. No. 1217. Cardiff. 24 March...
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  • Zealand The schooner was wrecked at Stony Bay, close to the entrance to Akaroa Harbour, during a heavy gale. Friedrich  United Kingdom The ship was driven...
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  • Genoa, Italy. She was refloated. Garman, or Janverm  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore and wrecked near Morthoe, Devon. Her crew were rescued...
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  • News". The Times. No. 18716. London. 16 September 1844. col B, p. 7. "The Barque "Magnet"". New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator. Vol. V, no. 362...
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  • She was refloated and towed in to Granton, Lothian. Heinrich Rostock The barque was driven ashore and wrecked on the west coast of Jutland. She was on a...
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  • 1880 Ship State Description Drumclog  United Kingdom The East Indiaman, a barque, was driven ashore at Porlan Point, Burma. Her crew survived. She subsequently...
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  • was on a voyage from Middlesbrough to Redcar, Yorkshire. Rosas  Peru The barque foundered in the Pacific Ocean 100 leagues (300 nautical miles (560 km)...
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