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Shipping accidents
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HMS Orpheus - Manukau Harbour - 1863- Fact file from Christchurch City Libraries
- Mikhail Lermontov shipwreck - Marlborough Sounds - 1986
- Fact file from Christchurch City Libraries
- SS Elingamite Shipwreck - 3 Kings Island - 1902
- Fact file from Christchurch City Libraries
- SS Penguin - Cape Terawhiti, Wellington - 1909
- Fact file from Christchurch City Libraries
- SS Tararua - Southland coast - 1881
- Fact file from Christchurch City Libraries
- SS Wairarapa - Great Barrier Island - 1894
- Fact file from Christchurch City Libraries
- The day the Wahine went down
- 10 April 1998 marked the 30th anniversary of the sinking of the Wahine, an event considered to be one the worst maritime disasters in New Zealand history. Reporter NATALIE CAMPBELL talked with one of the rescuers on Eastbourne Beach and two Masterton survivors about their memories of April 10, 1968. Article from the Wairapa Times Age
- Wahine - Wellington Harbour - 1968
- Fact file from Christchurch City Libraries
- The Wahine disaster
- The loss of the Wellington–Lyttelton ferry Wahine on 10 April 1968 is New Zealand's worst modern maritime disaster From nzhistory.net
