A sailing ship named Torgauten stranded at the Hokitika Wharf, New Zealand, in 1904. Hokitika had a reputation during the gold rushes for a treacherous river mouth crossing, which stranded or wrecked many ships trying to make landfall.

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Location: Hokitika, New Zealand
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