More Info →'Hydrabad' shipwreck, Waitarere Beach

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Written with black felt-tip pen on self-adhesive paper below photo, as caption: “Our ship is sinking.”

Penciled on back - Print No. 2. Exhibitor: J.F. Bryce. 36 Bartholomew Rd. Levin.

Stamped on back with purple ink – Wanganui Salon of Photography. [competition identification form]

‘Hydrabad’ shipwreck, Waitarere Beach. Entitled “Our ship is sinking” this set of two photographs shows the wreck in the 1950s sitting high above the sand, and in the lower photograph, taken in the 1980s the wreck sitting much lower in the sand.

2 B&W photo prints, mounted as a set.

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”

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