More Info →"The 'Hydrabad' Wreck on Manawatu beach 1878"

Description

The Hydrabad, 1350 tons, ran aground on the beach a mile south of Waitarere on the night of 24 June 1878. She was bound for Adelaide to Lyttleton, loaded with iron for the New Zealand railways and had few passengers. No lives were lost in the wreck but while still stranded a fire broke out and the ship was declared unsalvageable. She remains on the beach: her decks were still visible in the 1960s.

This image is a black and white photograph of a watercolour drawing by John Tiffin Stewart (1827-1913), a civil engineer, surveyor and amateur artist. The original drawing is part of the J. T. Stewart papers donated to the Whanganui Museum by W. T. Stewart.

Identification

Object type

Image

Content type

Image > B+W print

Identifier

2024Pa_JTStewart-S3-F1-9_042900

Archive

J T Stewart

Date

1878

Digitisation ID

2024Pa_JTStewart-S3-F1-9_042900

Format

B&W print