page_title: Maria (1836 ship)
section_title: Final voyage
hierarchical_section_title: Maria (1836 ship) / Final voyage
caption_attribution_description: English: Image by PhillipC. Image at https://www.flickr.com/photos/flissphil/110809720/.
context_page_description: The barque Maria was launched at Yarmouth in 1836. Maria was originally used on the England to Bombay run in the 1830s. She sank with the loss of 28 lives on 23 July 1851 near Cape Terawhiti on the North Island of New Zealand. Only two crew members survived.
context_section_description: Captain Plank sailed Maria from Lyttelton for Wellington on 20 July 1851. She had onboard 22 crew and six passengers. At 6am on 24 July, she struck a submerged rock at Ohariu Bay, to the north of Cape Terawhiti. Maria broke in two about 400m from shore.
  The passengers and crew attempted to lower the ship's boat but the lowering mechanism broke, killing several people. The survivors then tried to reach shore using salvaged material as a raft. The raft was dashed into the rocks near the shore, killing almost all on it. Only two crewmen survived, a Malay and Stewart, an ordinary seaman who had been at the wheel at the time of the accident; in all 26 lives were lost.
  Eleven bodies were recovered, of whom all but one were buried close to the site of the wreck. The body of Captain Plank was taken to Wellington and buried in the city's cemetery.
  Among the dead were two Canterbury settlers, G.P. Wallace of Wellington and William Deans of Riccarton. William and his brother, John Deans, had established Homebush, a sheep and cattle station near Darfield.
caption: Cape Terawhiti seen from an aeroplane.
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