EVENING STAR WRECK
Tho wreck of tho steamer Evening Star, in which several lives wero lost, occurred off Gable End Foreland, north of • Gisborne, 67 years ago. At 2.20 a.m. on February 13, 1867, when-travel-ling at'full speed froni Napier tOvAuckland, tho vessel, a screw steamer of 147 tons, struck a* reef. As heavy seas began to break over the ship, tho crew and threo passengers clung to the rigging, and in a desperate attempt to reach the shore, tho passengers, the cook, a steward, arid throe seamen were drowned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 47, 24 February 1934, Page 22
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89EVENING STAR WRECK Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 47, 24 February 1934, Page 22
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