Shipwreck (2000)

"There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; There gloom the dark broad seas"

-Alfred Lord Tennyson (Ulysses)

Remarkable tales of danger, courage and calamity on New Zealand shores. These are compelling sagas from our past - personal stories of settlers, travellers, sailors and traders - people whose lives were changed forever in one moment of peril at sea.

Stories from the television series included in this video:

• Adrift - The Lost Survivors of the Elingamite.
• The Mystery of the Holmglen.
• The Search for Niagara's Gold.
• The Tragedy of the Boyd.
• The Ariadne Agreement.
• Dead Reckoning - The Wreck of the Wiltshire