Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "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.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."@en }
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- TEV_Wahine abstract "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.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.".