PENGUIN WRECK RECALLED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19852, 13 February 1930, Page 14

PENGUIN WRECK RECALLED.

INTERVIEW WITH SOLE WOMAN SURVIVOR. [THE FBSBS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, February 12. Twenty-one years ago to-day the steamer Penguin was wrecked in Cook Strait. Mrs Hannam, the pnly woman to reach the shore alive, is now living in Onehunga". Seventy-four lives were lost in the wreck. In conversation this morning, Mrs Hannam said she and her husband and their four children were on their way to Rotorua for the benefit of her husband 's health. She was the only one of the family who was saved. Tlio Penguin struck at 10 o'clock at night and sank an hour afterwards. The boat in Which Mrs Hannam was put, capsized, but she clung to it until it was washed ashore after 4 o'clock next morning. She was dble to save a boy named Matthews, who is now married and living at Blenheim. When Mrs Hannam reached the shore she was taken by Mr Hook to Mr McMenamin's sheep station on horseback, and she received the utmost kindnessSix months afterwards Mrs Hannam gave birth to a son, who is now living with his mother at Onehunga.