Shipwrecked : New Zealand maritime disasters / Gavin McLean ; edited by Kynan Gentry ; colour plates by Eric Heath.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: Auckland, N.Z. : Oratia Books, 2019Edition: Updated and redesigned editionWhakaahuatanga: 248 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780947506667
- 0947506667
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Nonfiction | Hāwera LibraryPlus Nonfiction | Nonfiction | 910.452 (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2199627 |
Includes bibliographical references (page 235) and index.
Part 1 -- Hazards of the Coast -- 1 Taming treacherous coasts -- 2 Drunk, deranged or dangerous -- the human factor -- 3 Bar harbours -- river ports -- 4 Exposed coasts -- roadstead ports -- Part 2 -- The Sail and Steam Era -- Hot times in cold limes -- icebergs and castaways -- S Terrible engines of destruction -- collisions -- 7 'A thrill of horror throughout the Empire' -- fire -- 8 Two of the worst -- the Wairarpa and the Penguin -- Part 3 -- Foul Play -- Fraud, vandalism and terrorism -- 10 C asualties of war -- Part 4 -- The Modern Era -- Conference Lines casualties -- 12 Fioating Jonahs and hoodoo ships -unlucky ships -- 13 Coasters in cisis 1 -- 4 Close calls -- successful salvages -- 15 'Rocks ahead' Rocks astern!'- passengers in peril -- 16 From horror to heritage -- 17 Shipwrecks in the twenty-first century.
Explores some of the iconic wrecks that wrote themselves into New Zealand history: the Orpheus, General Grant, Tararua, Wairarapa, Penguin, Wahine and Mikhail Lermontov. But others will be new to readers, the ordinary, everyday vessels on which New Zealanders depended.
Previous edition: Full Astern!, 2007.
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