page_title: City of Dunedin (ship)
section_title: Sightings
hierarchical_section_title: City of Dunedin (ship) / Disappearance / Sightings
caption_attribution_description: English: Image by PhillipC. Image at https://www.flickr.com/photos/flissphil/110809720/.
context_page_description: The City of Dunedin was a 327-ton side wheel paddle steamer wrecked in Cook Strait near Cape Terawhiti on 20 May 1865 while sailing from Wellington to Hokitika via Nelson with the loss of all on board. Captain James Parker Boyd commanded her.
context_section_description: The City of Dunedin sailed from Wellington at about 4pm on Saturday 20 May 1865. She was sighted later that afternoon by a 15-year-old girl, Miss McMenamen while she was out horse riding at Cape Terawhiti, close in shore among the rocks. She thought the steamer had lost its steering as it was sailing in circles. The crew appeared to be confused, raising and lowering the sails. On returning home she asked her mother to come and look, but as her mother was busy she did not go. The wind on that day was reported as a fresh south-easterly. Later accounts refer to there having been a storm on the 20th and 21st.
caption: Cape Terawhiti
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