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    SS Tararua was a passenger steamer that struck the reef off Waipapa Point in the Catlins on 29 April 1881, and sank the next day, in the worst civilian...
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  • for the Range. The Tararua Forest Park, New Zealand's first forest park The SS Tararua, a 19th-century passenger steamship. Tararua (spider) is a genus...
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    multiple shipwrecks and fatalities. One of these losses was the wreck of the SS Tararua in 1881—the worst maritime disaster for civilian vessels in New Zealand's...
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  • plaque Illustration of the SS Tararua wreck SS Wairarapa wreck Illustration of the Mount Tarawera eruption Clipper ship Fiery Star SS Penguin Wreck of the General...
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  • Hong Kong in 1962 RMS Strathnaver 1931 Scrapped at Hong Kong in 1962 SS Tararua 1864 Wrecked on Otara Reef in New Zealand, April 29, 1881 Terukuni Maru...
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  • Region of New Zealand. The worst incident was on 29 April 1881, when the SS Tararua struck Otara reef 13 km (8.1 mi) off Waipapa Point. Of the ship's 151...
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    Te Whiti, Tohu Kākahi and followers arrested and imprisoned. Wreck of SS Tararua, 131 people die. Auckland and Christchurch telephone exchanges open. The...
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    Union Company (redirect from Union SS Co)
    weekly service between Melbourne and New Zealand, sold Albion, Arawata, Tararua and Ringarooma to Union. From 1889 there was three-way competition between...
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    lighthouse was built in response to the wreck of the passenger steamer SS Tararua on reefs off Waipapa Point on 29 April 1881, with the loss of 131 lives...
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    46°40′07″S 168°51′44″E / 46.6686°S 168.8622°E / -46.6686; 168.8622 (SS Tararua) HMS Torch  Royal Navy 17 November 1924 An Alert-class sloop that ran...
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