List of New Zealand disasters by death toll

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This is a list of New Zealand disasters by death toll, listing major disasters (excluding epidemics and acts of war) which occurred in New Zealand and its territories or involved a significant number of New Zealand citizens, in a specific incident, where the loss of life was 10 or more.

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[edit] List of disasters

Hastings Post Office after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake
Remnants of Flight 901 fuselage, 2005
Wreck of the HMS Orpheus
Most victims of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake died in the CTV Building's collapse
Inside the fissure formed in Tarawera's 1886 eruption
Tangiwai Memorial
Wreck of the Tararua
Salvage operations on the wreck of TEV Wahine
Ballantyne's fire seen from ChristChurch Cathedral
Seacliff asylum, before the fire
Restored grave of Dundonald's mate, Auckland Islands
Octagon building fire
Hyde railway disaster memorial.
Remains of sulphur mine, White Island
Deaths Name or description Type Date Location Notes
&10000000000000257000000257 Air New Zealand Flight 901 Air accident 01979-11-28 28 November 1979 Mt Erebus, Ross Dependency, Antarctica Controlled flight into terrain
&10000000000000256000000256[1][2] 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake earthquake 01931-02-03 3 February 1931 20 km north of Napier
&10000000000000189000000189 HMS Orpheus shipwreck 01863-02-07 7 February 1863 off the Manukau Heads near Auckland
&10000000000000181000000181[3] February 2011 Christchurch earthquake earthquake 02011-02-22 22 February 2011 Christchurch
&10000000000000151000000151 Tangiwai disaster rail accident / lahar 01953-12-24 24 December 1953 NIMT Whangaehu River bridge, between Waiouru and Ohakune rail bridge destroyed by lahar from Mount Ruapehu
&10000000000000135000000135+[4] landslide 01780 1780 Te Rapa/Waihi Village
&10000000000000131000000131 SS Tararua shipwreck 01881-04-29 29 April 1881 off Waipapa Point
&10000000000000121000000121 SS Wairarapa shipwreck 01894-10-29 29 October 1894 off Great Barrier Island
&10000000000000108000000108–153[5][6] Mount Tarawera eruption volcanic eruption 01886-06-10 10 June 1886 Mount Tarawera
&10000000000000100000000100–200[7] floods and snowstorms 01863-07 July 1863 - 01863-08 August 1863 Central Otago goldfields
&1000000000000007900000079 Fiery Star shipwreck 01865-05-11 11 May 1865 240 km off the Chatham Islands
&1000000000000007900000079[8] Matoaka shipwreck (presumed) 01869 1869 between Lyttelton and London
&1000000000000007500000075 SS Penguin shipwreck 01909-02-12 12 February 1909 off Cape Terawhiti
&1000000000000006800000068[9] General Grant shipwreck 01866-05 May 1866 Auckland Island
&1000000000000006500000065[10] Brunner Mine disaster mine accident 01896-03-26 26 March 1896 Brunner
&1000000000000006500000065[11] Little Waihi Landslide landslide 01846-05-07 7 May 1846 Waihi Village
&1000000000000005300000053[12] Wahine disaster shipwreck 01968-04-10 10 April 1968 Barrett Reef, Wellington Harbour
&1000000000000004800000048 Featherston prisoner of war camp riot riot 01943-02-25 25 February 1943 Featherston, New Zealand
&1000000000000004500000045 SS Elingamite shipwreck 01902-11-09 9 November 1902 off West Island in the Three Kings Islands
&1000000000000004300000043[13] Ralph's Mine mine accident 01914-09-12 12 September 1914 Huntly
&1000000000000004100000041 Ballantyne's store disaster fire 01947-11-18 18 November 1947 Christchurch
&1000000000000003900000039[14][15] City of Dunedin shipwreck 01865-05-20 20 May 1865 Cook Strait
&1000000000000003700000037 Seacliff Lunatic Asylum fire 01942-12-08 8 December 1942 Seacliff
&1000000000000003400000034[14][16] SS Taiaroa shipwreck 01886-04-11 11 April 1886 Clarence River mouth
&1000000000000003400000034 Kaitangata mine mine explosion 01879-02-21 21 February 1879 Kaitangata
&1000000000000003400000034[17] Dunedin shipwreck (presumed) 01890 1890 between Oamaru and London
&1000000000000003000000030 Marlborough shipwreck (presumed) 01890 1890 between Lyttelton and London
&1000000000000002900000029[18] Pike River Mine disaster mine explosion 02010-11-19 19 November 2010 northwest of Greymouth
&1000000000000002900000029[19] MV Kaitawa shipwreck 01966-05-23 23 May 1966 near Pandora Bank, Cape Reinga
&1000000000000002600000026 Barque Maria shipwreck[16] 01851 1851 Cape Terawhiti
&1000000000000002500000025+[14][20] Great storm of 1868, flash floods and 12 shipwrecks storm 01868-02-03 3 February 1868
&1000000000000002400000024[21] Assaye shipwreck (presumed) 01890 1890 between London and Wellington; wreckage washed up at the Chatham Islands 7 months after the ship left London
&1000000000000002300000023 New Zealand National Airways Corporation Flight 441 air accident 01963-07-03 3 July 1963 Kaimai Ranges
&1000000000000002200000022[22] launch Ranui shipwreck 01950-12-30 30 December 1950 off Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty
&1000000000000002100000021 Hyde railway disaster rail accident 01943-06-04 4 June 1943 near Hyde
&1000000000000002100000021[23] railway workers camp flood 01938-02-19 19 February 1938 Kopuawhara
&1000000000000002100000021[24][25] brigantine Sophia Pate shipwreck 01841-08 August 1841 Kaipara Harbour
&1000000000000002000000020[16] schooner St. Vincent shipwreck 01869 1869 Palliser Bay
&1000000000000001900000019[26] Strongman Mine mine explosion 01967-01-19 19 January 1967 near Greymouth
&1000000000000001800000018[27] Clyde shipwreck 01884-11-06 6 November 1884 Horseshoe Bay, near Akaroa, Banks Peninsula
&1000000000000001800000018[28] Lastingham shipwreck 01884-09-01 1 September 1884 Cape Jackson, Cook Strait
&1000000000000001800000018[29] schooners Enterprise and Tauranga shipwreck 01870-07-23 23 July 1870 between Cape Rodney and Sail Rock, Hauraki Gulf
&1000000000000001700000017[30] 1929 Murchison earthquake earthquake 01929-06-17 17 June 1929 Murchison
&1000000000000001700000017 North Island Main Trunk express rail accident [14] 01923-07-06 6 July 1923 Ongarue
&1000000000000001600000016[31] Capitaine Bougainville shipwreck 01975-09-03 3 September 1975 Whananaki
&1000000000000001600000016[32] 1943 Liberator crash at Whenuapai air accident 01943-08-02 2 August 1943 Whenuapai
&1000000000000001500000015[33] Brynderwyns bus accident road accident 01963-02-07 7 February 1963 Brynderwyn Hills
&1000000000000001500000015[34] MV Holmglen shipwreck 01959-11-24 24 November 1959 near Timaru
&1000000000000001500000015[14] Lockheed Lodestar airliner crash air accident 01949-03-18 18 March 1949 near Waikanae
&1000000000000001500000015[35] Derry Castle shipwreck 01887-03-20 20 March 1887 Enderby Island, Auckland Islands
&1000000000000001400000014 Cave Creek disaster structural failure 01995-04-28 28 April 1995 Paparoa National Park
&1000000000000001400000014[36] Aramoana massacre spree killing 01990-11-13 13 November 1990 Aramoana, near Dunedin
&1000000000000001400000014[37] Two Hudson bombers lost off the New Zealand coast air accident 01944-08-21 21 August 1944 en route from Fiji
&1000000000000001400000014[38] floods 01858-01-17 17 January 1858 Hutt Valley
&1000000000000001300000013 NAC Electra air crash air accident 01948-10-23 23 October 1948 on Ruapehu
&1000000000000001300000013[39] SS Ventnor shipwreck 01902-10-28 28 October 1902 off Omapere, Hokianga
&1000000000000001300000013[16] Tasmania shipwreck 01897 1897 Mahia Peninsula
&1000000000000001200000012[40] barque Dundonald shipwreck 01907-03-07 7 March 1907 Disappointment Island, Auckland Islands
&1000000000000001200000012[41] Barque Lizzie Bell shipwreck 01901-07-24 24 July 1901 Waimate, Taranaki
&1000000000000001200000012[42] floods 01897-04-16 16 April 1897 Clive, Hawkes Bay
&1000000000000001200000012[43] Zuleika shipwreck 01897-04-16 16 April 1897 near Cape Palliser
&1000000000000001200000012[44] Octagon building fire fire 01879-09-08 8 September 1879 Dunedin
&1000000000000001200000012[45] ferry Pride of the Yarra and paddle steamer Favourite collision 01863-07-06 6 July 1863 Otago Harbour
&1000000000000001200000012[46] Alcmène shipwreck 01851-06-03 3 June 1851 Baylys Beach, Kaipara
&1000000000000001100000011[47] 2012 Carterton hot air balloon crash air accident 02012-01-07 7 January 2012 near Carterton
&1000000000000001100000011[48] Glen Afton mine, carbon monoxide asphyxiation mine disaster 01939-09-24 24 September 1939 Huntly
&1000000000000001100000011[49] B17 bomber crash air accident 01942-06-12 12 June 1942 RNZAF Base Auckland at Whenuapai
&1000000000000001000000010[50] Aspiring Air Britten-Norman Islander, collided with terrain air crash 01989-08-08 8 August 1989 Upper Dart Valley
&1000000000000001000000010[51] Husky and Argo lost to storm in yacht race shipwrecks 01951-01-21 21 January 1951 between Wellington and Christchurch
&1000000000000001000000010[52] sulphur mine destroyed lahar 01914-09-10 10 September 1914 Whakaari/White Island

[edit] Significant international events involving New Zealanders

Confirmed Deaths Name Type Date Location Notes
&10000000000000470000000470[53] Cospatrick fire 01874-11-17 17 November 1874 640 km south-west of the Cape of Good Hope, en route to Auckland Only 3 people survived
&10000000000000100000000100[54] The Trevelyan (immigrant ship en route from Glasgow) storm 01888-06-03 3 June 1888 Presumed foundered off the South African coast, en route to Port Chalmers, New Zealand
&1000000000000008900000089[55] Knowsley Hall shipwreck (presumed) 01879 1879 between London and Lyttelton
&1000000000000001000000010[56] Bere Ferrers rail accident, train hit NZ troops on tracks by platform train accident 01917-09-24 24 September 1917 Bere Ferrers, Devon, UK

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bateman New Zealand Encyclopedia, edition 4 (1995). Article: |earthquake 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, Hawke's Bay region, Napier
  2. ^ Welch, Denis (4 February 2006). "Shake, Rattle & Roll". New Zealand Listener (3430): 29–30. http://listener.co.nz/default,5417.sm.  A larger death toll of 258 includes two missing, presumed dead.
  3. ^ "Christchurch earthquake victim identified". stuff.co.nz. 7 April 2011. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/4860291/Christchurch-earthquake-victim-identified. 
  4. ^ Waihi Landslide, GeoNet News, Vol. 2, February 2003, p. 7. Death toll calculated by subtracting death tolls for two later landslides (64 and 1 in 1846 and 1910 respectively) from the total of "more than 200" given for all three.
  5. ^ The eruption's death toll is uncertain. While 153 is a commonly quoted figure, only 108 named victims have been identified. Death list, Anheizen.com.
  6. ^ In 2007, the General Manager of the Earthquake Commission said that "... Ngati Hinemihi oral accounts put the death toll in the thousands." David Middleton (2007). A Roof Over Their Heads? The challenge of accommodation following disasters. (Accessed 2008-04-12.)
  7. ^ Disasters and Mishaps – Flood Hazards - Blizzard and Flood in 1863, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. Accessed 2008-01-22.
  8. ^ The Missing New Zealand Ship 'MATOAKA', which cites The Times, London, 22 March 1870, page 9. Accessed 2008-05-21.
  9. ^ Five more died before the survivors were rescued 18 months later.
  10. ^ Brunner mine disaster
  11. ^ Lamorna Cooper, Hipaua Steaming Cliffs and Little Waihi Landslide, Tephra, Vol. 19, June 2002, 42-47.
  12. ^ The original Wahine death toll was 51; two names were added 22 and 40 years later. Three more people were killed by Cyclone Giselle elsewhere in New Zealand.
  13. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Mining: Ralph's Mine, Christchurch City Libraries.
  14. ^ a b c d e New Zealand disasters timeline, Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
  15. ^ Steamer 'City of Dunedin'- Mysterious Sinking - Cook Strait, New Zealand - 20 May 1865
  16. ^ a b c d Disasters and Mishaps – Shipwrecks, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966, updated 2007-09-18.
  17. ^ Dunedin, which cites W.H. Brett's White Wings: Fifty years of sail in the New Zealand Trade, Vol. I. 1925.
  18. ^ Beswick, Angela. "Pike River: Second explosion, no survivors". 3 News. http://www.3news.co.nz/Pike-River-second-explosion-no-survivors/tabid/423/articleID/187811/Default.aspx. Retrieved 19 November 2010. 
  19. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Sinking of MV Kaitawa - 1966
  20. ^ Great storm of 1868, flash floods and 12 shipwrecks
  21. ^ Assaye
  22. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Ranui sinking - 1950
  23. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Kopuawhara flood, Christchurch City Libraries.
  24. ^ Ryburn, Wayne (1999). Tall Spars, Steamers & Gum. Auckland, N.Z.: Kaipara Publications. pp. 230. ISBN 0-473-06176-7. 
  25. ^ "Not many remember the Sophia Pate". http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/pate.htm. 
  26. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Strongman Mine Explosion, Christchurch City Libraries.
  27. ^ Clyde, Dive New Zealand Magazine.
  28. ^ The Lastingham Wreck, Paul's Dive Planet.
  29. ^ New Zealand Historical Data - Ship "Tauranga"
  30. ^ Eileen McSaveney, Historic earthquakes - The 1929 Arthur’s Pass and Murchison earthquakes, Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 2007-09-21. Accessed 2008-01-05.
  31. ^ Whananaki Coastal Walk
  32. ^ Livingstone, Bob (1998). Under the Southern Cross: The B-24 Liberator in the South Pacific. Turner. pp. 115. ISBN 1-56311-432-1. http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=YbefAXLgqbMC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=24027. 
  33. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Brynderwyns bus accident, Christchurch City Libraries.
  34. ^ Disasters and Mishaps – Shipwrecks - Holmglen, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966, updated 2007-09-18.
  35. ^ "The Derry Castle". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. http://tpo.tepapa.govt.nz/ViewTopicExhibitDetail.asp?TopicFileID=0x000a3311. Retrieved 2009-04-18. 
  36. ^ [13 murder victims plus perpetrator]
  37. ^ A. H. McLintock, ed (1966). "Pre-war and Wartime Accidents". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/disasters-and-mishaps-air-losses/1. Retrieved 7 January 2012. 
  38. ^ Weekly Feature - Early settler had leading role, Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 2003.
  39. ^ Disasters and Mishaps – Shipwrecks - Ventnor, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966, updated 2007-09-18. The cargo included 499 corpses, which were never recovered.
  40. ^ Three more died before being rescued.
  41. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Barque Lizzie Bell sinking - 1901
  42. ^ Clive floods - Hawkes Bay, North Island - Good Friday 16 April 1897
  43. ^ The Wreck of The "Zuleika", Palliser Bay. Quotes from NZ Truth, 16 March 1976.
  44. ^ Octagon building fire, Dunedin - 8 September 1879
  45. ^ Wreck information, Quay Stuff.
  46. ^ Wreck of the Alcmène
  47. ^ "Hot air balloon crash near Carterton kills 11". Stuff.co.nz. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6224922/Hot-air-balloon-crash-near-Carterton-kills-11. Retrieved 2012-01-07. 
  48. ^ Sherwood, Alan and Phillips, Jock. "Coal and coal mining". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/MineralResources/CoalAndCoalMining/7/en. Retrieved 2009-04-18. 
  49. ^ Lomas, David (10 April 2010). "Secret deaths". The New Zealand Listener. http://www.listener.co.nz/commentary/secret-deaths/. Retrieved 2012-01-07. 
  50. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19890808-0. Retrieved 2009-04-17. 
  51. ^ "Yacht Wrecked in Ocean Race". The Press. 29 January 1951. pp. 6. http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/RecreationSeaAndSky/SailingAndWindsurfing/6/ENZ-Resources/Standard/2/en. Retrieved 2009-04-18. 
  52. ^ A death toll of 12 is sometimes given. This may include two miners who died during the year before the lahar.
  53. ^ John Wilson, The voyage out - Fire on the Cospatrick, from Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 2007-09-21. Accessed 2008-05-20.
  54. ^ The Mercury newspaper (Hobart, Australia), [1], Tuesday 30 October 1888
  55. ^ Board of Trade Wreck Report for 'Knowsley Hall', 1880, Board of Trade, 1880. Accessed 2008-05-21.
  56. ^ BBC - Devon - News - Bere Ferrers unveils memorial to 10 New Zealand soldiers killed in a train accident in 1917

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