the scow 'Ururoa' stranded on Waikanae Beach, Gisborne, September 1901

This was the first stranding of the Ururoa, but not the last. Info from the NZ National Library: "Three-masted schooner-rigged scow, of 212 tons gross. She was built at Whangaroa in 1900 by Lane & Brown, and her dimensions were 123.5 ft [38 metres] long, beam 29.4 feet, depth 7.2 feet. Within a month of purchase by Mr G Braithwaite, she was wrecked of the Wanganui Coast, three miles south of the Wanganui River mouth on 17 December 1908; the court report blamed the negligence of Captain C J Harris. In 1901 the ship had also been stranded two miles south of the breakwater at Poverty Bay, and on May 134th 1902, she had struck a reef off Cape Campbell."