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TEV Wahine
TEV ''Wahine'' was a twin-screw, turbo-electric, roll-on/roll-off passenger and vehicle ferry of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. She was launched at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan, Scotland, in 1965 and worked the New Zealand inter-island route between Wellington and Lyttelton from 1966. In an exceptional storm on 10 April 1968 she foundered on Barrett Reef and capsized near Steeple Rock at the mouth of Wellington Harbour. Of the 610 passengers and 123 crew on board (plus one stowaway), 53 were killed.〔Initially the official toll was 51, but two names were added 22 and 40 years later.〕
The wreck of the ''Wahine'' is one of the better-known maritime disasters in New Zealand's history, although there have been worse, with far greater loss of life. Radio and television captured the drama as it happened, within a short distance of shore of the eastern suburbs of Wellington, and flew film overseas for world news.
==Ship background==
TEV ''Wahine'' was designed and built for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, and was one of many ferries that have linked New Zealand's North and South Islands. From 1875 ferries have plied Cook Strait and the Kaikoura coast ferrying passengers and cargo, making port at Wellington in the north and Lyttelton in the south. From 1933 the Union Company's Wellington – Lyttelton service was marketed as the "Steamer Express".
By the early 1960s the Union Company was starting to face major competition. Apart from air travel, especially with the introduction of turboprop aircraft by the National Airways Corporation, in August 1962 New Zealand Railways began a roll-on/roll-off road and rail ferry across Cook Strait between Wellington and Picton, which continues as the Interislander. The ''Wahine'' was the Union Company's first purpose-built roll-on/roll-off ferry, introduced to maintain competition with the Railways ferries.
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