<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "Shipwrecks — New Zealand — History."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Shipwrecks — New Zealand — History."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/christchurch/rss/search?query=%22Shipwrecks%20%E2%80%94%20New%20Zealand%20%E2%80%94%20History.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:56:27 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Shipwrecked]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shipwrecks litter the coasts and reefs of New Zealand. Disasters at sea are no longer the regular occurrence they were in the days when sea travel was the main means of coastal and international transport, yet recent wrecks like the Rena show that perils remain. Shipwrecked retells the voyages of ships doomed never to make their next port, in a jacketed hardback featuring plentiful photos and ephemera - including Eric Heath's superb colour illustrations of notable ships lost to the sea.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1100343</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1100343</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McLean, Gavin, 1957-2019]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1100343037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>New Zealand Maritime Disasters</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lost Wrecks of Wairarapa]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Wairarapa coast is treacherous and has claimed its fair share of ships. From the loss of the first pakeha vessel, the whaling barque David in 1841, there have been many others that became wrecked here. While some were recovered and would live to sail another day, others were not so fortunate. The Lost Wrecks Of Wairarapa tells the story of 78 vessels that found out just how dangerous this part of the country can be.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1321509</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1321509</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pacey, Mark, 1982-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1321509037</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worse Things Happen at Sea]]></title><description><![CDATA[MISHAP  1968 - Caught in a sudden violent storm, the Wahine ferry foundered after running aground on Barrett's Reef, attempting to enter Wellington Harbour. Battered mercilessly by the elements, the Wahine was listing heavily to starboard when the order to abandon ship was given. The tragic events that followed became our nation's worst modern maritime disaster.  MISERY  1945 - Struck by torpedoes, the USS Indianapolis sunk leaving around 880 sailors exposed in shark-infested waters with few life rafts, no food or drinking water and no sign of rescue. Their wait in those perilous waters as hope of survival slowly slipped away has become the stuff of naval nightmares.  MYSTERY  1872 - Found seaworthy with no signs of life onboard and her cargo intact, few maritime mysteries are as intriguing and mystifying as that of the abandoned Mary Celeste. Were the absent crew a victim of mutiny or foul play? Or was this a clever case of insurance fraud?  Bear witness to some of the worst nautical disasters from New Zealand and around the world in these fascinating, and endlessly engrossing accounts inspired by John McCrystal's radio series Shipwreck Tales. From heart-wrenching tales of survival against all odds to gob-smacking acts of foolish hubris, Worse Things Happen at Sea will keep you enthralled from the safety of dry land.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1271665</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1271665</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McCrystal, John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1271665037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Tales of Nautical Mishap, Misery and Mystery From New Zealand and Around the World</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Those in Peril on the Sea]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1660922</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1660922</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Church, Ian, 1941-2013]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1660922037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Marking One Hundred Years Since the Establishment of the Shipwreck Relief Society of New Zealand in 1902</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair Winds and Following Seas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every shipwreck has a story to tell and every shipwreck is undergoing a fundamental transformation. With artworks and stories by Neil Johnstone and poetry by Janis Freegard, this book is a meditation on those strange, liminal spaces that continue to fascinate, alchemise and promise long lost treasures. Features shipwrecks in Taranaki, Lyttelton, Otago, Motueka, Patea, Cornwall, and Scotland.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1575506</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1575506</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johnstone, Neil, 1964-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1575506037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lost Wrecks of Wairarapa]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Wairarapa coast is treacherous and has claimed its fair share of ships. From the loss of the first pakeha vessel, the whaling barque David in 1841, there have been many others that became wrecked here. While some were recovered and would live to sail another day, others were not so fortunate. The Lost Wrecks Of Wairarapa tells the story of 78 vessels that found out just how dangerous this part of the country can be.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1300345</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1300345</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pacey, Mark, 1982-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1300345037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shipwrecks of New Zealand]]></title><description><![CDATA[This, the second edition of the Companion to New Zealand Shipwrecks, builds on the original 1936 book, New Zealand Shipwrecks by Ingram & Wheatley and seven further editions, the 8th edition being published in 2007. This second edition of the Companion, Shipwrecks of New Zealand is lavishly illustrated with colour plus many previously unpublished images of wrecks. It also lists the whereabouts of bells from our shipwrecks including many images, the first such list. The first edition of the Companion, Shipwrecks of New Zealand, published in 2009 corrected errors in the 8th edition and added more unrecorded wrecks. This second edition adds another 30 pages and again adds previously unrecorded wrecks as letters and diaries surfaced with more details and more information discovered in our National Archives. However mysteries still remain such as the story of an ancient wreck in Aotea Harbour and details of the wreckage recently excavated at Carters beach in Westport. While this book is essentially maritime history it also gives many insights into our early social history, such as the entry for the Volunteer wrecked at the Fox River, where 'A sailor, dead for seven summer days was placed on the bar room floor of Kelly's hotel awaiting the coroner. The patrons kept drinking, one even astride the body ... ' Ingram & Wheatley's original book included cutters, small fishing vessels, yachts and launches. Subsequent editions continued this practise. While not strictly ships, their inclusion adds so much to our maritime history and rightfully deserves their place. Again with a very limited print run, this book must become a collectors' piece and will interest the lay reader, maritime enthusiasts and genealogists alike. Together with the 8th edition of New Zealand Shipwrecks, this Companion provides the most complete record of our shipwrecks to date.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C848119</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C848119</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Diggle, Lynton]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/848119037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Companion to the 8th Edition of New Zealand Shipwrecks</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shipwrecks of New Zealand]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C665400</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C665400</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Diggle, Lynton]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/665400037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full Astern!]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1690403</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1690403</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McLean, Gavin, 1957-2019]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1690403037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Illustrated History of New Zealand Shipwrecks</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships and Their Stories Relative to the Lives of Me and My Dad]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1665263</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1665263</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brasell, George, 1911-2004]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1665263037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Memories of Stories Told at Sea and Ashore</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best of Shipwreck]]></title><description><![CDATA["...tales of danger, courage and calamity on New Zealand shores"--Container insert.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1645605</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1645605</guid><category><![CDATA[VC]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1645605037</comments><format>VC</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shipwreck]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1643161</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1643161</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Callan, Louise, 1948-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1643161037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Tales of Survival, Courage &amp; Calamity at Sea</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1605600</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1605600</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McLean, Gavin, 1957-2019]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 1991 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1605600037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wreck of HMS Orpheus]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1698177</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1698177</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hetherington, Roy M.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1698177037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>New Zealand&apos;s Worst Sea Disaster</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrets of RMS Niagara]]></title><description><![CDATA[In June 1940, RMS Niagara was secretly carrying 8 tons of British gold when it hit a German mine and sank off New Zealand. The Royal Navy declared salvage was impossible because the water was too deep, so the desperate Bank of England offered the job to a retired sea captain, John Williams. Within weeks, Williams hired a deep-sea diver, built an experimental diving bell, employed a team of misfits, and refloated a rusting hulk to use as a salvage ship. Then, against orders, Williams sailed into the minefield to search for the sunken liner. Over the coming months, the crew battled bureaucracy, storms, German mines, and each other, as they dove to record depths. But the closer they got to the gold, the more they realised they would be betrayed by the people who sent them on their mission. With exclusive access to diaries, reports, logbooks, correspondence and interviews, Jeff Maynard tells a story of underdogs overcoming insurmountable odds, and the people of a small coastal community who welcomed them, revealing the truth behind one of the most incredible adventures of the Second World War.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1834021</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1834021</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maynard, Jeff (Filmmaker)]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1834021037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The British Gold Ship Sunk in A Nazi Minefield</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's 1866 and the three-masted sailing ship General Grant is on the southern route from Melbourne to London, with gold from the diggings secreted in returning miners' hems and pockets. In the fog and the dark, the ship strikes the cliffs of the Auckland Islands, is sucked into a cave and wrecked. Only fourteen men make it ashore and one woman - Mrs Jewell. Stuck on a freezing and exposed island, the castaways have to work together to stay alive, but they're a disparate group with their own secrets to keep and their only officer is disabled by grief after losing his wife in the wreck. A woman is a burden they don't need. Meanwhile stories about the gold grow with the telling: who has it, where is it and how much went down with the ship. Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant is a vivid imagining of the story behind the enduring mystery of one of New Zealand's early shipwrecks.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1304778</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1304778</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sanders, Cristina]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1304778037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Puriri Disaster]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ben Gibbs tells the story of the loss of the Nelson-owned motor vessel Puriri, the only ship destroyed by enemy action in New Zealand territorial waters during the Second World War. At the outbreak of war the Royal Navy (New Zealand Division) was in dire need of auxiliary vessels and experienced seamen to operate them. Small merchant ships and their crews were often requisitioned for military purposes. Puriri was one of these, requisitioned by the Navy in November 1940 and fitted out as a minesweeper. She was commissioned as HMS Puriri in April 1941 and assigned to a flotilla sweeping mines which had been laid in the approaches to Auckland harbour by the German raider Orion. One of these mines had already sunk the ocean liner Niagara. On 14th May 1941, only 25 days after being commissioned, HMS Puriri struck a mine eight miles off Bream Head near Whangarei. She sank very quickly and five of her crew were lost.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C917524</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C917524</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gibbs, Ben, 1937-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/917524037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treasure of the General Grant]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the 4th May 1866 the General Grant, a 179-foot clipper, came to grief on the cliffs of the Auckland Islands of New Zealand. At the time it was travelling from Melbourne to London carrying 83 passengers and reportedly 2,576 ounces of gold? Robbie, a Southland sheep farmer suspects that his uncle a famous treasure hunter salvaged this treasure but the secret dies on his uncle's deathbed. He inherits his uncle's estate but is also left with the unanswered question about the General Grant. Robbie's obsession to resolve this mystery takes him down a dangerous path where he brushes with unsavoury characters who have more than a passing interest in the gold. Did his uncle salvage the gold and who really was his uncle? This thriller involves historical events woven into a work of fiction and is of particular interest to those in New Zealand. Australia and England. In the early history of New Zealand and Australia, ships took the dangerous but fastest route to England sailing west to east through the Southern Ocean. Many ships disappeared hitting icebergs, coming to grief around the horn or ending up as wrecks like the General Grant on sub-Antarctic islands.  My book covers the laidback, rural, New Zealand lifestyle of a Southland farmer caught up in this mystery. In reading this book one will not only enjoy a gripping thriller but will be left learning what is known about the General Grant and deciding whether the treasure has been salvaged.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1173632</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1173632</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilson, Brian, 1951-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1173632037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgotten Ships]]></title><description><![CDATA["Over the period 1820 to 1925 hundreds of ships made successful voyages to New Zealand bringing thousands of immigrants, livestock and cargo to the ‘new’ land. Despite somewhat basic navigational instruments and knowledge compared to today the experience of the officers, seamen and shipping companies resulted in only a very small proportion of ships never finishing their voyages. For the first time this book collates the details of many of these unsuccessful voyages in terms of how the ships came to grief and fate of the passengers and crew"--Back cover.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1047482</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1047482</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Collins, Bruce E., 1952-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1047482037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Unfinished Voyages to New Zealand, 1820-1925</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shipwreck Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the year 1866 a ship named the General Grant lost course on its epic voyage to London and crashed upon a subantarctic island off the coast of New Zealand. Legend has it that its cargo contained one of the richest in history--gold all mined from the Victorian goldfields in Australia. After years of mishap and misfortune--even death--no one has been able to locate its exact whereabouts. In comes Roy Berenger, one of the world's foremost experts on salvaging shipwrecks. Recruited to solve the mystery once and for all, he must use all his trademark talents and wits to uncover the historic shipwreck. The strange circumstances around its harrowing disappearance are mysterious and all-too frightening. Putting together a local crew with the latest technological resources at his disposal, Berenger ventures to this far-off island to pull off an audacious search attempt. But in order to find it--he must brave the real-life perils of hypothermia, great white sharks, high-sea squalls, and human treachery.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1041008</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1041008</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McPike, James B.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1041008037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rugged Coast, Rough Seas]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Surely the Wairarapa doesn't have a maritime history, there are no ports or wharves and only a few fishermen earning their living from the sea.” This has been a commonly held view, and the reason this book has not been written until now. In fact, the maritime history of the Wairarapa coast is both fascinating – and important. The sea lane from Auckland to Wellington, via the Wairarapa coast, was a critically important highway during the 19th century. Coastal shipping, with its use of surfboats, delivered the essentials of life ashore and took off wool, tallow and timber in the decades before roads were carved through the bush to remote settlements and sheep stations. Rugged Coast, Rough Waters tells the story of shipping – of national and local importance – on the Wairarapa coast. It also documents the coast’s Māori maritime history and the barely remembered sealing, whaling and flax industries that once flourished. The unforgiving, exposed coastline and the storms that rage along it have resulted in over 70 shipwrecks and more than 100 lives lost.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C963140</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C963140</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scadden, Ken, 1952-2016]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/963140037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Wairarapa&apos;s Maritime History</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The General Grant's Gold]]></title><description><![CDATA[The wreck in 1866 of the ?General Grant? in the desolate sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands is one of the world's great nautical mysteries, a story that still tantalises and thrills. When the ship was crushed in a cave beneath a sheer cliff face, a few crew members and a handful of passengers managed to escape in a lifeboat. For more than two years they lived a hand-to-mouth existence on a nearby island before they were rescued. This story is extraordinary in itself, but soon compelling legends spread that the ship had sunk with a fabulous hoard of gold from the Victorian goldfields. For 140 years, expeditions and bounty hunters have searched for the ship and her elusive cargo. In the relentless seas of the Auckland Islands, it has been a soul-destroying endeavour. Locating the vessel has been difficult enough; finding the gold has proved impossible - unless one of those early expeditions really did find it? In this book Madelene Ferguson Allen and Ken Scadden tell the full story of the voyage from Melbourne, the shipwreck, the plight of the castaways and the search for the gold. At this distance in time, separating the facts from the legends is difficult, but they have scrupulously researched the events of the shipwreck and examined every subsequent search for the gold. The story is more remarkable than fiction, a tale of heroes and cads, heartbreak and loss, hope and despair, hunger and greed. As it has bewitched so many in the past, so it will haunt readers long after the last page is turned.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1587599</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1587599</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen, Madelene Fergusson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1587599037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Shipwreck and Greed in the Southern Ocean</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Golden Grey]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since gold was discovered during the 1860s, the West Coast of the Southern Alps has had many battles with Mother Nature. Our coal fired the furnaces that industrialised New Zealand and Westland's timber helped build the nation. This book celebrates 150 years of the last frontier, the discoveries, the wealth, storms, hardships, protests, murders, shipwrecks, disasters, good times and laughter; all moulding the landscape and its people into character of its own. Welcome to this place we call home. Put the billy on, sit back and let West Coasters tell you of a journey which carved a special chapter in New Zealand's history.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C738382</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C738382</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kokshoorn, Tony, 1955-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/738382037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>West Coasters, 1860-2010</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The General Grant's Gold]]></title><description><![CDATA[The wreck in 1866 of the General Grant in the desolate sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands is one of the world's great nautical mysteries, a story that still tantalises and thrills. When the ship was crushed in a cave beneath a sheer cliff face, a few crew members and a handful of passengers managed to escape in a lifeboat. For more than two years they lived a hand-to-mouth existence on a nearby island before they were rescued. This story is extraordinary in itself, but soon compelling legends spread that the ship had sunk with a fabulous hoard of gold from the Victorian goldfields. For 140 years, expeditions and bounty hunters have searched for the ship and her elusive cargo. Locating the vessel has been difficult enough; finding the gold has proved impossible]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C629839</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C629839</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen, Madelene, 1942-2003]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/629839037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Shipwreck and Greed in the Southern Ocean</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Eventful Story of the Auckland Islands]]></title><description><![CDATA["This is the romantic story; of these sub-Antarctic Islands, over 200 miles south-west of Bluff, from the time of their discovery to their vitrual abandonment. It narrates the stirring adventures of sealers and whalers, of the brief Māori occupation, of the establishment, with high expectations, of the Enderby coloy, its vicissitudes and failure"--Back cover.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1459649</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1459649</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McLaren, Fergus B. 1914-1941]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1459649037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item></channel></rss>