SS TARARUA No 20 Scale 1/4 = 1 foot
Maker
Gourlay Brothers & Co Dundee
(Scottish, 1854 - 1908)
Date1864
Object number00001119
NamePlan
MediumPaper
DimensionsOverall: 561 mm
ClassificationsMaps, charts and plans
Credit LineANMM Collection
HistoryOwned by the Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand the vessel was sailing from Port Chalmers, Dunedin, to Melbourne when it was wrecked on a reef off Waipapa Point on 28-29 April 1881, resulting in the worst civilian shipping disaster in New Zealand's history. Of the 151 passengers and crew on board, only 20 survived the shipwreck.
