Wahine - The Untold Story

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Wahine - The Untold Story

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Brian Edwards was working as a television reporter when the Wahine sank on 10 April 1968 in Wellington Harbour. Twenty-five years later Edwards presented this TV3 documentary about the tragedy, which remains New Zealand's worst modern maritime disaster. Wahine - The Untold Story interviews passengers and crew, and features harrowing rescue footage and stills. Interviewees criticise the way the evacuation was handled — "we'd been lied to continually" — while helmsman Ken MacLeod remembers the ...

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Video

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1993

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http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/wahine-the-untold-story-1993

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wahine / ship / maritime disaster / lyttelton / barrett reef / wellington harbour / robert ewan / susan madarasz / captain gordon robertson / cyclone gisele / drownings / lifeboats / eastbourne / seatoun / pencarrow lighthouse / rescuers / union company / ken macleod / william j spring / storm / tragedy / paul dean / noel claridge / john fulton / stuart young / iain macdonald / philip bennett / cyril sword / john brown / tiakina / tapuhi / shirley hick / shirley anne hick / karen mason / lyn brittain / ian macfarlane / doug newey / peter stevens / ray whitham / nardoo balantine scott / nz on air / new zealand on air

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