Purpose-built museum for salvaged 150-year-old ship
An architect’s impression of what the eventual exhibit may look like.
John Street, right, officially handed the project over to Jim Wintle, left.
A schooner that had been buried underneath the sand at Muriwai since 1865 will soon be housed in a purpose-built museum at the Historic Village in Mangawhai.
The Daring trading vessel was on its way to Manukau when she became a victim of gale-force winds, which threatened to wreck her on the Kaipara Bar.
Her crew managed to pull her clear of the bar but she was nudged ashore some 12km further south where she would remain for more than 150 years.