More Info →"The 'Felix Stowe' Wreck on Manawatu beach 1878"

Description

The Felixstowe was a barque trading into Ōtaki. She was wrecked on 13 October 1878 when - like the Hydrabad in June of the same year - she mistook the northern end of Kāpiti, on which there was no lighthouse, for Stephens Island in Cook Straight. The captain, Piggot, was never found; three crewman were washed ashore dead. The ship's resting place is off the coast just to the south of Pakakutu - a little to the north of the mouth of Ōtaki.

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

Identifier

2024Pa_JTStewart-S3-F1-11_041958

Archive

J T Stewart

Relation

J T Stewart, Series 3, Folder 1

Date

1878

Digitisation ID

2024Pa_JTStewart-S3-F1-11_041958

Format

B&W print

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