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Shipwrecked : New Zealand maritime disasters / Gavin McLean ; edited by Kynan Gentry ; colour plates by Eric Heath.

Nā: Kaituhi: Momo rauemi: TextTextKaiwhakaputa: Auckland, N.Z. : Oratia Books, 2019Edition: Updated and redesigned editionWhakaahuatanga: 248 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780947506667
  • 0947506667
Ngā marau:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Ngā tūtohu mai i tēnei whare pukapuka: Kāore he tūtohu i tēnei whare pukapuka mō tēnei taitara. Takiuru ki te tāpiri tūtohu.
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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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