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Martin Owen Cahill
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Username: martin
Post Number: 493
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 - 11:41 am: | 
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Hi,Kevin
If I am lucky you'll hear from me, the hunt has begun on it.
Hi Alyssa,
If you are in Christchurch you might want to check out Lyttelton. It was the scene of alot of activity over the decades with those ships. I think they have a local museum. This would be a good start. ask around as there may be people who have stories of the time.
cheers
Martin
"No Sir, We just hit the cruiser"
helmsman on Queen Mary
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Martin Owen Cahill
Member
Username: martin
Post Number: 574
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, March 9, 2008 - 10:22 am: |
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On the eve of the 40h anniversary of this disaster a new website has been created by the Godson of the ship's captain.
It is well worth the time recquired to read it.
http://www.thewahine.co.nz/wahine.html
It deals very much with the story of Captain Robertson and the ship he commanded
"No Sir, We just hit the cruiser"
helmsman on Queen Mary
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Martin Owen Cahill
Member
Username: martin
Post Number: 575
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, March 9, 2008 - 10:25 am: |
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On April 9 at 8.30pm a BBC documentary will go to air on Maori TV in New Zealand.
This film is about the the events of April 10 1968 and hopefully will be seen overseas as well.
"No Sir, We just hit the cruiser"
helmsman on Queen Mary
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Jason D. Tiller
Moderator
Username: jtiller
Post Number: 4559
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - 11:43 pm: |
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From the New Zealand Herald:
TV Review: Still seeking answers 40 years after ferry tragedy
quote:Television documentaries that come heralded by promos promising answers to unsolved mysteries so often prove to be windy and overblown affairs.
But last night's re-examination of the Wahine interisland ferry sinking in April 1968 (Inside Story: The Wahine Disaster, TV One, 9.30) navigated its way solidly around the sensationalist reefs on which so many of the lightweights run aground.
For the rest go to, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1501119/story.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10501220
"To be happy is to be contented in your own mind"...Harold Godfrey Lowe
43° 44' 01" N, 79° 24' 16"W
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Iain Stuart Yardley
Member
Username: boz
Post Number: 1014
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 7:13 pm: |
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Evening all,
I met a chap from New Zealand working in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, yesterday. He is aged about 30 and has never visited the North Island. Worse still, he has never heard of the Wahine. Amazing, I thought. Then again, I shouldn't be so surprised. During my research into the Herald of Free Enterprise, many people I know confused the Zeebrugge disaster with the Marchioness or the Estonia and some had never even heard of it at all.
I was always shocked at how some of my friends made it through each day seemingly completely oblivious to what was happening in the world. I often thought my possibly obsessive interest in historical events was a burden but, nah, I guess I'm just helping to keep the memory alive.
Cheers,
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