Ship Details
Rig
Cargo/Passenger Ship
Built
1857
Built In
Tonnage
363
Built By
Demise
ran aground near Taniwha Point on 13/2/1871
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Description
SS Airedale was bound for Taranaki and southern ports with English mails on board. She left Manukau on the 13th February in thick drizzling rain, and on a course which for ten years previously had been steered in safety. The SS Airedale struck rocks at 3.35 a.m. on February 14th on a reef near Taniwha Point, about a mile to the north of the Waitara River, New Zealand and sank within 3 minutes.She was owned by Henderson & MacFarlane of Auckland, New Zealand.
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