RELATED TO MAST OF THE ROBERT AND BETSY
Events
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2 May 1868
First shipment of salmon and trout ova arrives
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17 August 1942
Attack on the Nino Bixio
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20 May 1865
Loss of the City of Dunedin with all hands
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29 April 1881
131 perish in worst civilian shipwreck in NZ waters
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16 April 1912
News of Titanic sinking reaches NZ
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3 February 1868
Killer storm sweeps the country
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23 October 1915
Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
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27 November 1940
Liner sunk by German raiders off East Cape
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15 August 1951
Troop ship Wahine wrecked en route to Korean War
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15 September 1976
Lyttelton–Wellington ferry service ends
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11 August 1962
Picton ferry Aramoana enters service
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20 August 1940
Turakina sunk by German raider in Tasman
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