Hydrabad 1878
Marker: recorded wreck position (Steam era).
Key facts
| Name | Hydrabad | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Year lost | 1878 | English Wikipedia lead text (year following a loss verb, parsed) |
| Era | Steam era | derived from year |
| Ship type | historic site | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Nationality / flag | New Zealand | Wikidata P8047 country of registry |
| Nearest coast | North Island | Natural Earth (public domain) |
| Position | -40.5667, 175.1889 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
Hydrabad was an iron cargo and passenger sailing ship, built in Scotland and launched in 1865. She was owned by several successive companies, and served until being wrecked off the coast of New Zealand in 1878. There were several attempts to salvage her, but they all failed, and the wreck was left to deteriorate on the shoreline.
Diving & visiting
Hydrabad was bound from Lyttelton to Adelaide, carrying broad gauge rolling stock which had been sold by the Canterbury Provincial Railways to the South Australian government. While making the voyage she became caught in a severe storm on 24 June 1878. Her captain, a man named Holmwood, ran the ship aground on Waitarere Beach five kilometres south of the mouth of the Manawatu River in the North Island, to increase the passengers' and crew's chances of survival. There were no deaths in the wreck. Two attempts were made to refloat the vessel, the first in November 1878, and another on 7 January 1879.
Location
- Recorded position: -40.5667, 175.1889 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Nearest coast: North Island
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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Hydrabad (ship) (revision 1379964745), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section and section(s) “Wreck”; condensed by selecting paragraphs; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
Wreck facts from Wikidata (CC0).
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