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	Wahine disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The TEV Wahine was a New Zealand inter-island ferry that foundered on Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour in a storm on 10 April 1968, and capsized near Steeple Rock.
		The wrecking of the Wahine is by far the best-known maritime disaster in New Zealand's history, although there have been worse with far greater loss of life.
		As the storms hit Wellington, the ferry Wahine was crossing Cook Strait on the last leg of her overnight journey from the port of Lyttelton, near Christchurch, to Wellington.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wahine_disaster (1112 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Ryongchon disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Ryongchŏn disaster was a train disaster that occurred in the town of Ryongchŏn, North Korea near the border with China on April 22, 2004.
		The disaster occurred when a flammable cargo exploded at the railway station at about 1300 local time (0400 UTC).
		For instance, the Texas City disaster of 1947 involved an explosion of 7,000 tonnes of the substance after it started on fire.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Ryongchon_disaster (923 words)

	Wahine - New Zealand Disasters - Kids - Christchurch City Libraries
		At about 1.15 pm the combined effect of the tide and the storm swung the Wahine round so that there was a patch of clear water sheltered from the wind and the sea on the starboard side.
		The main cause of the Wahine's sinking was that the ship went off course in one of the worst storms in New Zealand's recorded history, went out of control and struck Barrett Reef.
		Responding to Tragedy: the Police at Tangiwai, Wahine and Mt Erebus disasters, from NZ History.Net of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2002.
	library.christchurch.org.nz /Childrens/NZDisasters/Wahine.asp (1161 words)

	Wahine - JMS Naval Architects & Salvage Engineers
		T.E.V. The T.E.V. Wahine was a passenger/vehicle ferry, which regularly traveled the popular route between the North and South Islands of New Zealand.
		On April 10, 1968 the Wahine was unexpectedly the victim of a rapidly developing tropical cyclone.
		The suddenly erratic cyclone changed course, developed 100-mph winds and overtook the Wahine as she approached her destination, Wellington Harbor.
	www.jmsnet.com /wahine.htm (378 words)

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		By the time the Wahine approached Wellington Harbour the winds were galeforce and huge waves lifted the vessel from astern, pounding her down again.
		She began towing the Wahine from the stern but after ten minutes the line broke and it proved impossible to attach it again.
		The Wahine was now listing to starboard, and somehow the deputy harbourmaster, Captain Galloway, managed to leap from the pitching pilot launch and clamber up a ladder dangling from the ship's starboard side.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~glaive/nz/pages/wahine.htm (1269 words)

	Police Response to Disaster - NZHistory.net.nz
		By the time of the Tangiwai disaster of Christmas Eve 1953, there was a rudimentary SAR organisation but most of the arrangements were improvised on the spot with the aid of the army and navy personnel and facilities at Waiouru and HMS Irirangi, as well local volunteers.
		By the time of the wreck of the TEV Wahine on 10 April 1968, there was a functioning civil defence structure which permitted an organised rescue that was as successful as possible in the circumstances.
		The recovery of the bodies and property from Air New Zealand flight TE 901 on Mt Erebus on 29 November 1979 was undertaken under the most taxing conditions imaginable and could not have been contemplated without the fullest co-operation of all the partners.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /culture/respondingtotragedy-introduction (573 words)

	Disaster Deaths
		Disaster mortality studies tend to focus on people who clearly died as a result of a specific disaster event, because such data are relatively unambiguous.
		Despite the focus here on disaster deaths, it would be dangerous and unwise to forget the wider and, in some ways, more important context of all health effects of disasters--health effects on individuals and on society.
		The class of disasters involving water is second in complexity to the class of disasters involving volcanoes.
	www.ilankelman.org /disasterdeaths.html (4274 words)

	Wahine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wahine, the Maori and Hawaiian word for woman, can mean:
		The Wahine disaster, in which the Wahine ferry foundered
		Mana Wahine Te Ira Tangata, a New Zealand political party from 1998-2001
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wahine (115 words)

	Wellington Local History - Wahine disaster
		Though there have been worse shipping disasters in New Zealand with far greater loss of life, the sinking of the Wahine in 1968 is by far the most well known.
		A well-illustrated introduction to the sinking of the Wahine especially written for younger readers or for those for whom English is a second language.
		The sinking of the Wahine was a ground-breaking event in the history of broadcasting in New Zealand.
	www.wcl.govt.nz /wellington/wahine.html (833 words)

	Natural Hazards Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At 6.40 a.m., Wahine struck Barrett’s Reef in poor visibility.
		Insurance payouts for all the impacts of the Wahine storm amounted to $155 million (inflation adjusted).
		It was one of the two worst regenerating tropical cyclones to hit New Zealand in the last century.
	www.naturalhazards.net.nz /nhu/previous/2003-04/history (120 words)

	Find A Grave Cemetery Records- Wahine Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The two storms met over the capital city, Wellington, creating a single storm just as the inter-island ferry Wahine was crossing Cook Strait, between the South and North Islands of New Zealnd.
		At 5.50 on the morning of 10 April, carrying 610 passengers and 123 crew, the Captain of the Wahine, decided to enter Wellington harbour.
		Although both anchors were dropped, and all water-tight doors were closed, the vessel drifted off the rocks, and eventually listed, and sank, with the loss of 51 lives.
	findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7390631&pt=Wahine+Disaster (143 words)

	Wahine Disaster New Zealand "Wahine Disaster in cook strait" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Wahine Disaster New Zealand "Wahine Disaster in cook strait"
		Shortly after 2:00pm off steeple rock where she was first struck, Wahine sank to the seabed, resting on her starboard side.
		That day many acts of heroism and valour were performed in the attempts to rescue and bring ashore the survivors.
	www.brazen.net.nz /wahine-disaster.html (160 words)

	The day the Wahine went down
		The Wahine disaster was the biggest event in his career as a police officer.
		One of the starkest memories for her is all the furniture sliding and trapping her in the corner of the lounge bar and having to crawl out.
		The horror wasn't over once the Wiltons were in a liferaft as the funnel of the Wahine appeared to come over the top of the tiny raft just as the ship finally settled its bridge on the seabed.
	wairarapa.co.nz /times-age/weekly/wahine.html (1925 words)

	Wahine disaster map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This map of Wellington Harbour is adapted from the original which appeared in the Police inquiry report.
		It shows the location of the Wahine sinking and some key points in the rescue operation.
		Twentyman, G.E. 'The "Wahine" Disaster (on 10 April, 1968): The Police Role', New Zealand Police.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /Gallery/police/image-pages/wahine-map.html (67 words)

	Wahine, 1968 - Police Response to Disaster - NZHistory.net.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the Wahine case, however, the disaster developed over several hours in the harbour of the capital city and involved an active rescue operation.
		The subsequent court of inquiry 'had no criticism to offer and nothing but praise for the police effort.' The operation was outstanding in the circumstances and provided lessons and a template for future occasions.
		One unrecognised outcome of the disaster was the recognition of the police diving squad some months later.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /culture/795 (1084 words)

	Calamities and Catastrophes: Unit Plan [English Online]
		The disasters used in Part One are from New Zealand history and all have different natural causes.
		All the reading for each disaster must be completed before the writing can begin and the writing must be in their own words - not copied from the readings.
		If wall space is difficult some presentations could go into clearfiles or booklets that other students could take to read and each student could select one piece of their work to go on the wall.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/units/disasters/home.html (1066 words)

	ON THIS DAY \| 10 \| 1968: Dozens die in NZ ferry disaster
		The TEV Wahine, carrying 610 passengers and 125 staff, ran aground as it entered the harbour in the early hours of this morning.
		As the Wahine entered the harbour it was dashed into rocks on Barrett reef and the vessel's radar system was incapacitated.
		The Inquiry found that the primary reason for the Wahine's loss was the presence of water on the vehicle deck.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/10/newsid_2924000/2924897.stm (471 words)

	★ Wahine Disaster - New Zealand Information Article
		For 30 minutes the Wahine battled into the waves and wind, but by 6.40 am had been driven back onto the rocks of Barrett's Reef.
		Attempts were made to salvage the Wahine, but later storms broke up the wreck, and it was finally towed out to deep water, and sunk.
		Today the Wahine Memorial Park marks the disaster, near where survivors reached the eastern shore at Seatoun.
	www.mkiwi.com /New+Zealand+information/Wahine_disaster_information.html (844 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Sports
		Big D nearly spelled Disaster last night for the University of Hawaii women's volleyball team.
		Wahine coach Dave Shoji said nearly losing to SMU will help his team refocus for today's match and for the contest at UTEP (5-20, 3-9) on Monday.
		The Wahine are now 53-1 in WAC regular-season play since joining the conference in 1996.
	starbulletin.com /1999/11/13/sports/story4.html (634 words)

	New Zealand maritime disasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Our most recent maritime disaster is the attack and successful sinking of the Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior.
		The largest maritime disaster to strike in New Zealand waters was the Wahine disaster of 1968.
		The museum's records of these disasters and other tragedies are kept in the museum's library and archives.
	www.nzmaritime.org /ennewz/new_zealand_maritime_disasters.htm (194 words)

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		Find out about one or more of these disasters and the impact it had on the people who survived it, and the rest of the country.
		You may like to include the events of the disaster, background information that may be useful, interviews, impact of the community, cost.
		Hopefully you will have a better understanding of at least one of these disasters and the impact it had on the people who survived it.
	www.tki.org.nz /r/ict/ictpd/downloads/disasters_webquest.doc (598 words)

	This Day in History
		The Wahine was built in 1963 in Scotland, but was not put into service until 1966 in New Zealand.
		Tugboats were dispatched to assist the Wahine, but their efforts proved futile in the fierce storm.
		Efforts to bring the Wahine back to the surface were hampered after a May 1969 storm broke the ship into three pieces; it was later dismantled where it sank in the harbor.
	www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=disaster&month=10272956&day=10272976 (440 words)

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		She reads the journal again and again and begins to feel almost as though she is transported back in time- as though she is actually there.
		Debbie is a typical young person and most readers, particularly girls, would relate to the problems that she deals with at school and with her friends.
		In addition the extracts from Grandpa James’ diary are based on the journal of J.R. Motherwell, a doctor on the ship that the author’s forebears came to New Zealand on in 1841.
	www.scholastic.co.nz /Resources/Notes/Abandon_Ship.doc (2144 words)

	Quay - TEV Wahine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Muesum of Wellington, City and sea, have some souvenours of the disaster along with a large scale model of the vessel in its final moments.
		Around the Wellington region there are many anchors, on display, that are claimed to have come off the Wahine.
		Simply the Wahine was not carrying that many anchors, further research is needed in this area.
	www.quaystuff.co.nz /resources/wrecks/wahine.php (240 words)

	Ships Nostalgia - WAHINE and RANGATIRA
		Wahine Day as it is known will never be forgotten, I had recently returned from the U.K. and remember hearing the news that she was in trouble very early on the radio, the weather had to be lived through to be believed!
		Walked to work as the buses were not running only to find we had no power and listening to the news on transister was our only occupation and gathering on the ground floor of my workplace as we had lost our roof.
		The Wahine sinking was a shock to me as when I was on the ship I felt very safe as it felt as steady as being on land.
	www.shipsnostalgia.com /printthread.php?t=390 (1545 words)

	Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: Wahine Disaster In New Zealand
		This memorial is the aft mast of the Wahine and was erected in 1990 on the wellington waterfront near the Interisland wharf where she would depart at 8pm for Lyttelton.
		The Wahine was similar to that and the connection between the two is that the PV design flaws led to the design of stern door on the Wahine which was later found to be watertight after the ship sank.
		I still see the Wahine out there even though she is not.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /discus/messages/6937/31870.html?1120530489 (1053 words)

	Abercrombies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ken McLeod, the Helmsman of the Wahine Car-Ferry is also another peice of the jigsaw.
		The Police Rescue operations for Cyclone Giselle and the Wahine Ferry Disaster were co-ordinated by Chief Inspector George Twentyman of N.Z police National Headquarters, 1968.
		When Cyclone Giselle hit the Wahine Car-Ferry and captsized it, their were many NSW and Victorian Travellers on the ship who were passengers for Tiki Tour 336.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/nz/abercrombies.htm (691 words)

	wahine volleyball news - 2nd volleyball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Wahine Volleyball: Second in preseason poll By Scott Robbs Date: Aug 11, 2003...
		Wahine Volleyball: Stanford KO's Hawaii in 3 By Kalani Wilhelm Date: Nov 11, 2002...
		Wahine Volleyball News Links to select volleyball articles from around the nation, with special emphasis on University of Hawaii volleyball and...
	volleyball.nogeakim.info /dir23/wahine-volleyball-news.html (351 words)

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