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Mystery Launch On The Wade River

Posted on April 8, 2023 by Alan Houghton - waitematawoodys.com founder

Mystery Launch On The Wade River

Small photo, short story today – its Good Friday.

The launch pictured above moored in the Wade River, Silverdale, Auckland that comes to us from an album that belonged to Brian Peet’s ‘non-boating’ side of his family. Brian’s assumption is that the launch is one that his landlubber ancestors saw from a shoreline or wharf.

Can we put a name to the boat – those portholes look vaguely familiar

2 thoughts on “Mystery Launch On The Wade River”

Chris Edmunds on April 10, 2023 at 12:38 pm said:

Wainunu?

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Jeff Carney on April 8, 2023 at 7:50 am said:

Looks like Norma.

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