Friends of Karori Cemetery

• • SS Penguin

    • 2 Mar 2021
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • On the evening of 12 February 1909, the SS Penguin left Picton for Wellington in fine weather.Conditions quickly deteriorated as the Penguin reached Cook Strait. After changing course again to ride out the storm, the ship struck rocks and began to sink in heavy seas.The evacuation did not go well as the lifeboats quickly capsized. […]
    • Accepted from Friends of Karori Cemetery stories 37 months ago by tonytw1
    • Tagged as:
    • penguins

    Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

Tagging votes

These votes contributed to this item's tagging:

• penguins - Hand tagged by autotagger

• animals - Ancestor of tag penguins
• communitygroups - Publisher tag
• karori - Publisher tag
• places - Ancestor of publisher tag karori
• localhistory - Publisher tag

• Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand - Publisher's location

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