Photograph: Grounded wreck on beach, early 1960s
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Lowe, R Jeremy
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Early 1960s
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Series includes wrecks of the scows VIXEN and RIMU (1896) at Awaawaroa Bay, Waiheke Island, and wreck of the coal-hulk Eure (1886) on Northcote Beach. The remains of VIXEN and RIMU (1896) are confirmed by Colin Gordon, farmer at the bay, whose father brought VIXEN and another scow there in 1940's to scrap it for timber, to rebuild the wharf. (Information provided by Jeremy Lowe).
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