The Wreck of the Rewa

Woke up on Good Friday to see a new vista: a shipwreck.

In the bay of Moturekareka Island is an old wreck, or at least part of it, lying in the north western bay, on Moturekareka, near Kawau Island. The wreck is the Alice A. Leigh and renamed the Rewa whose history is directly linked to the end of the days of sail. She was a 3,000 ton four masted steel barque built by the Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company, Cumbria and named after the Mayoress of Stockport. Alice was the biggest ship built in Whitehaven, carrying 31 sails on her lofty rig. Alice ran the typical trades of the large four–masters, from India and Australia to London.

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