7 April 2018
NZ Herald: Wahine – 50 years of pain (multimedia feature)
NZ Herald: Wahine rescuer hopes to meet ‘brave little lad’ pulled from harbour
8 April 2018
NZ Herald: Photos inside Wahine released for the first time in 50 years
9 April 2018
Dominion Post: Wahine disaster 50 years on: The third landing site
NZ Herald: Wahine disaster survivors’ thank-you to rescuers at 50th anniversary
(includes video interview with Murray Robinson, godson of Captain Gordon Robertson)
NZ Herald: Wahine survivors arriving in Wellington for commemorations
TVNZ: Wahine disaster fifty-years-on – Seven Sharp meets two friends bonded by tragedy
10 April 2018
Noted: ‘Here, catch!’: The harrowing tale of a Wahine survivor and her baby
NZ Herald: Video: Former Wellington Harbour pilot Capt John Brown remembers the Wahine disaster
NZ Herald: Wellington residents’ front-row view of unfolding Wahine disaster
Auckland Seafarers’ Centre: Wahine Memorial Service
More coverage, compiled by the Wahine 50 Charitable Trust
- Video: Jacinda Ardern pays tribute to victims and survivors of 1968 ferry tragedy 50 years on – TVNZ
- Choral tribute to Wahine disaster goes inside as bad weather grips Wellington – NZ Herald
- Survivor’s letter to her family says it all – Otago Daily Times
- Vivid memories: Former cop tells for the first time his role in Wahine rescue – NZ Herald
- Survivors and a rescuer – The Wahine disaster – TVNZ
- ‘That should never happen’ – Son of father who died in Wahine wreck 50 years ago still wants answers – TVNZ
- Wahine sinking 50 years on: Commemorations today in Wellington for New Zealand’s worst modern maritime disaster – TVNZ
- Wahine disaster remembered 50 years on – Maori Television
- Hundreds attend Wahine disaster 50th commemorations – Maori Television
- Fifty years on the Wahine memories return for survivor – Hawkes Bay Today
- Paihia man remembers the day the Wahine sunk – stuff.co.nz
- Daring Wahine leap remembered 50 years on – Southland Times
- National tragedy with local connections – The Junction
- Memories still raw – Wairarapa Times-Age
- Over the side and into the sea’ – Otago Daily Times
- Wahine disaster victim had already survived one Wahine grounding – Marlborough Express
- Wahine disaster remembered: Stories of survival and tragedy 50 years on – TVNZ
- Wahine 50 Years of Pain – in-depth look at the Wahine disaster and aftermath – NZ Herald
- Wahine disaster fifty-years-on – Seven Sharp meets two friends bonded by tragedy – TVNZ, Seven Sharp
- Sober weather for Wahine 50-year commemorations – RNZ
- ‘Here, catch!’: The harrowing tale of a Wahine survivor and her baby – The NZ Listener
- The Wahine disaster – 50 years on – RNZ
- Tears mingle with rain as Wahine survivors gather 50 years on – RNZ Checkpoint
- Wahine disaster victims recall their ordeal – RNZ
- Remembering the 50th anniversary of the Wahine ferry disaster – TVNZ
- One Quick Question for 10 April 2018 – RNZ The Panel
- My Wahine story – Sharon Major, a survivor, RNZ – Jesse Mulligan 1-4pm
- Wahine survivors reflect on disaster during 50th anniversary – RNZ Morning Report
- Wahine rescuer, Julian Webb, remembers tragedy 50 years later – RNZ Morning Report
- Wahine disaster 50th anniversary begins with dawn service at Eastbourne – NZ Herald
- Wahine: Into the arms of strangers – Stuff.co.nz – interactive
- We didn’t think we would perish’: Wahine rescuer recalls his close brush with death -Nelson Mail
- Wahine survivor from Rotorua reflects on that fateful day – NZ Herald
- Taranaki Wahine survivor recalls ship’s plight 50 years on – Taranaki Daily News
- Wahine disaster 50 years on: The third landing site – stuff.co.nz
- Wahine survivor plans ‘wee prayer’ to mark tragedy on his own – stuff.co.nz
- Wahine survivor back on water – NZ Herald
- When Eastbourne rallied to help Wahine survivors – RNZ
- Survivor still emotional about the Wahine disaster 50 years ago – Waikato Times
- Wellington set to mark 50th anniversary of Wahine disaster – Wahine 50 Trust Chair, Rhys Jones, talks to Suzie Ferguson on RNZ’s Morning Report
- Wahine disaster survivors’ thank-you to rescuers at 50th anniversary events in Wellington – NZ Herald
- The day the gales smashed Wellington – Otago Daily Times
- Wahine passenger Doug Crombie: ‘I thought, I’ll be right’ – RNZ – Sunday morning
- Wahine disaster: Survivors of the storm – Otago Daily Times
- Survivors of the Wahine disaster – Kath Henderson, Rob and Muriel Ewan – tell their story 50 years on – RNZ
- Wahine disaster hero Chris Wilson: What happened to boy I saved? – RNZ Checkpoint
- Sound archives: The sinking of the “Wahine” – RNZ
- Descendents of Wahine disaster victims honour the fallen – TV3, The Project
- Lessons from Wahine sinking have made shipping safer; Maritime NZ
- Wahine survivor returned to shipwreck to retrieve precious photographs – newshub
- Rescuer Terry Kelliher takes 50 years to share ‘haunting’ Wahine experience – newshub
- Wahine disaster 50 years on: Wellington remembers – the Dominion Post
- Outward Bound’s Wahine lifeboat seeks new home – Marlborough Express
- BP donates IRB to Capital Coast Callout Squad
- The Eastbourne Herald has run several pieces in the lead-up to the Wahine 50th – read on-line
- Wahine tributes bring memories back for survivors – including Wahine 50 Trustees Rob and Muriel Ewan – NZ Herald
- ‘It was a day like no other’ – Wairarapa Times-Age
- Wahine 50 – the anniversary salute – NZ Police – Ten One magazine
- The Wahine 50th – stuff.co.nz – includes footage of Hon Phil Twyford at the dawn service, survivor Annetta Cowie, and the Wellington Community Choir singing in Wellington Railway Station,
- Jeremy Elwood and Michele A’Court: Tragedies have a way of cementing moments in time – stuff.co.nz
- Rotorua survivor returns from Wahine 50th anniversary commemorations in Wellington: ‘It was …
- Son (Trevor Doig) remembers father 50 years on from the Wahine disaster – Hawkes Bay Today
- Wahine survivor Bill Paki interview – Waitomo News
- Remembering the Wahine, 50 years on – Florence Shearman, Cambridge News
- The Wahine 50th – stuff.co.nz – includes footage of Hon Phil Twyford at the dawn service, survivor Annetta Cowie, and the Wellington Community Choir singing in Wellington Railway Station,
- Jeremy Elwood and Michele A’Court: Tragedies have a way of cementing moments in time – stuff.co.nz
- Remembering tragedy and courage: Wahine 50-year commemoration dawn ceremony – Hon Kris Faafoi and Hon Phil Twyford
- Exhibition marks 50th anniversary of Wahine disaster – medai on display at Parliament
- Footage of the Wahine 50th – the dawn service in Eastbourne, 11.30am service in Wellington, and the Steam Past on Wellington harbour – KiwiRail
- Wahine: ‘The team that never played’ meets for dinner marking 50th anniversary tragedy – NZ Herald
- Wahine: Tragedy forced Cook Strait ferry bosses to respect the ocean – NZ Herald
- “It was do or die” – Whanganui residents share horrific memories of Wahine disaster – Wanganui Chronicle
- Choral tribute to Wahine disaster goes inside as bad weather grips Wellington – NZ Herald
- Wellington harbourside residents’ front-row view of unfolding Wahine disaster – NZ Herald
- Wahine rescuer remembers harrowing experience 50 years on – John Brown on Newstalk ZB
- Wahine Disaster 50th commemoration flotilla steam-by – video footage of the Steam Past – NZ Herald
- The day’s events – interviews and footage – RNZ Checkpoint
- Focus: Photos of inside the Wahine Ferry released for the first time in 50 years – NZ Herald
- Motions — Wahine Disaster—50th Anniversary – NZ Parliament
- Safety paramount in wake of Wahine disaster – opinion piece by KiwiRail Chief Executive, Peter Reidy, stuff.co.nz
- Weatherwatch: the storm that sank a ferry in New Zealand 50 years ago – the Guardian
- Ambulance officer Peter Huggard on the Wahine disaster
- Wahine 50 – anniversary salute – NZ Police
- The Wahine disaster – interviews with survivors and Coastguard Wellington – NZ Women’s Weekly
- The Wahine 50 events – interviews with rescuer Terry Kelliher, survivors Rob Ewan, Muriel Ewan and Nusara Banyatpiyaphod, and Steam Past footage – Newshub
- Cook Strait News on upcoming Wahine 50th
- ‘Here, catch!’: The harrowing tale of a Wahine survivor and her baby by Sharon Major / The Listener, 3 April
- 50 years on commemorating Wahine Day with Rhys Jones, Chair of the Wahine 50 Trust – Hutt Zone
- The Wahine Tragedy 1968 – Muriel Ewan’s story – Hutt Zone
- Official opening of Emergency Responders Display – Governor- General, The Rt Hon Dame Patsy Reddy
- The Wahine Disaster – 50 Years On – Wellington airport
- NZ On Screen marks 50 years since Wahine Disaster with new collection – NZ on Screen
- Wahine Disaster – 50 Years On – Scots College
- Flag from Wahine donated to Muritai School in Eastbourne – Hutt News
- Wahine rescuer seeking young survivor ‘He was such a brave little boy’ – Newstalk
- Fifty years of tears shed at Wahine memorial – Geoff Beaumont, the Southland Times, 17 April 2018
- Weather lends authenticity to ‘Wahine’ commemoration – Otago Daily Times, 11 April 2018
- Weather but no waffle – Paul Gorman, comment, Otago Daily Times, 17 April 2018
- Week in Review: Fifty years later, another storm – Phillip Matthews comment, stuff.co.nz
- Volunteer coastguard Dave St John honoured for heroic service – stuff.co.nz
- Heroes recognised for search and rescue efforts – RNZ