Timeline: Ethel WALLACE: Chris Korte's New Zealand Genealogy Project

Chris Korte's New Zealand Genealogy Project

1894 - 1897 (3 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1894	29 Oct 1894: Wairarapa shipwreck On 29 October 1894, in a heavy fog, the liner Wairarapa steamed into cliffs on Great Barrier Island, about 100 km out from Auckland, and sank with the loss of 121 of its 251 passengers and crew. SS Wairarapa was a New Zealand ship plying the route between Auckland, New Zealand and Australia.