Crewmember comes ashore in a basket from the steamship Kaponga, which was stranded on the bar while leaving Greymouth, Westland, New Zealand, on , and eventually became a total wreck on the north tiphead. The steel screw steamship weighed 2346 tons gross and had a net register of 1167 tons.

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Location: New Zealand
Photo credit: © Lakeview Images / Alamy / Afripics
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