The SS Penguin sank off the coast of Wellington, New Zealand in 1909 after hitting rocks in rough seas. There were 105 passengers and crew onboard. Lifeboats and rafts were launched but capsized in the rough conditions. None of the children aboard survived. Many passengers and crew drowned or died from hypothermia after spending hours drifting in the icy waters before being rescued. The sinking resulted in the deaths of over 30 people, leaving the survivors to mourn the tragic loss of life.

1. SS Penguin Shipwreck
February 12, 1909, Cape Terawhiti, Wellington

2. How the
They started off in fine weather and just like any ship
shipwreck
set of on the vague by raising their sails on 12
February, 1909 heading to Wellington from Picton. The
old (made in 1864)small ship(746 tons) had 105
happened?
passengers on board(from Nelson and Picton. But by
the time they reached Cook Strait the weather closed
in making everything insight invisible. The captain
changed course thinking that that might take him clear
of danger. A seaman recalled that the ship hit heavily
making a noise like the rending of a gigantic piece of
calico. And as he recalled the ship started to sink into
the water. The ship men follow the method women
and children first. The lifeboats were quickly capsized
in to the rough sea. The children and one woman
named Ada Hannam survived (this lady was

3. Rest In Peace...
• BIRD- Charles Edwin Grace, PICTON
• BISHOP- Clarence (age 3 years), Mrs Elizabeth Mary
Polly, NELSON
• BONE- Albert Edward, PICTON
• BRITTAIN- Mrs Mary, PICTON
• CAPE-WILLIAMSON- Keith Hawthorne, NELSON
• COLLINS- James, NELSON
• COUMBE- Edward, NELSON
• DORAN- Miss Mary Agnes, PICTON
• EVANS- Mrs Amelia, NELSON
• GREIG- Archibald (aged 7 years), PICTON

4. • HALE- Clarence Harrington, Mrs Marion Beatrice,
PICTON
• HANNAM- George Alexandra (age 5years), Joseph
Walter, Margaret Ellen Amelia(age 3 years), Ronald
Edward (age 10 years), Ruby May (age 2 years), NELSON
• HART- Mrs Laura, PICTON
• HENRY- Mrs Eusebia Margaret, William Higgins,
NELSON
• HOLCROFT- Edward Sylvester, PICTON
• HOLMES- Mr, PICTON
• HUNT- Mrs Jane Rebbeca, NELSON
• JOHNSON- Mr, NELSON
• McALLEY- Mrs Marion, PICTON

5. • McGUIRE- Florence Susan (age 5 years), Ivy Alice
(age 10 years), Rose Anges (12 years), Wallace
George, NELSON
• NODEN- Clara, NELSON
• RENNIE- Miss Jessie, NELSON
• RIBBANDS- Miss Dorothy Mary, PICTON
• ROGERS- Thomas, PICTON
• SEED- John, NELSON
• SHAW- Harry Wharton, NELSON
• SYMONS- Ethel Agnes (age 14), Mary Alice (age 15),
Mrs Minnie Ethel, NELSON
• TOOMER- Alice Amelia (age 11), Mrs Amelia Maria,
Ivy Dorothy (age 17)

6. • TRICE- Mrs Angelina, PICTON
• TROADEC- Gustav (age 17), NELSON
• UNDERWOOD- Henry James, PICTON
• WHITE- Noel Winsbury, PICTON
• WOODWARD- Felix, NELSON
THE CREW THAT DIED
CHIEF STEWARD- Charles Alexander
TRIMMER- George A Barnes, Albert E Conie
SALOON WAITER- George William Claydon, Ernest
Crook
MESSROOM STEWARD- Forth Rotheram
SENCOND OFFICER-Frank J Driscoll

7. FIREMAN- Robert Fairbairn, John Wood (aka Ward)
DONKEYMAN- George Gaffra
ABLE SEAMAN- Edward Gale, William Ernest Henderson,
C Westacott, Thomas Woodford
SECOND COOK- Edwin Herbert Hall
BOATSWAIN- Thomas Hayes
FORECABIN STEWARDESS- Miss Annie Hope
STEWARDESS- Mrs Maude Alice May Jacobs
SECOND PANTRYMAN- G F Wellum Johnson
THIRD OFFICER- Albert George Loosemore
SCULLION- Henry McGurie
CHEIF OFFICER-Walter Mrchibald McIntyre

8. GREASER- John Rafferty
THIRD ENGINEER- Walter Stanley Rentoul
CHEIF ENGINEER- Robert William Urquhart
Dear people- You Will Never Be Forgotten,
We Pledge To You Today,
A Hallowed Place Within Our
Hearts Is Where You’ll
Always Stay...

9. During the shipwreck….
They launched lifeboats, but only two were successful
Because they didn’t have any life boats, they decided to send out rafts, which worked
as well
They sent out the woman and children first, unfortunately none of the children
survived
Quite a lot of the crew didn’t survive either
The other passengers who got on to the life boats and rafts were drifting for hours and
hours before they reached there safety
When the boat was sink, the cold water flooded the engine room caused a explosion,
ripping the boat apart.

10. Quotes And Saying By
People on board and
other people too-
The ships hung in the sky in much the
same way that bricks don't
We may have come in
He who loves practise different ships but we're
without theory is like all in the same boat now
the sailor who boards
ship without a rudder
and a compass and
never knows where he
may cast. “The time has come” the walrus said “To
talk of many things of shoes and ship-and
sealing wax- of cabbages and kings