IMAGE
Wreck of ship 'Progress', Owhiro Bay, Wellington
- Date
- [1931?]
- Reference
- 1/2-086057-G
- Description
Photograph related to the wreck of the ship 'Progress' taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington, probably in 1931. The Progress was a coastal steamer which wrecked in a southerly gale onto rocks off Owhiro Bay, Wellington. Four lives were lost.
Source of descriptive information - From negative register and the Evening Post article 'A sea tragedy of five years ago', (issue 102, 1 May 1936), p 7. Image not seen.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Glass negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper / Negatives of the Evening Post newspaper
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Glass negative
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