Behind the scenes of last month’s TEV Wahine wheel installation at Te Waka Huia Wellington Museum | Wellington Museum

On this day in 1968, TEV Wahine struck Barrett Reef in appalling weather as tropical cyclone Giselle lashed Wellington. 51 people lost their lives that day, and two more died from injuries in years to come. Find out more about this tragedy in this episode of Telling Tales. | Wellington Museum

The sinking of the Lyttelton–Wellington ferry Wahine on 10 April 1968 was one of New Zealand's worst modern maritime disasters, where fifty-one people lost their lives that tragic day, another died several weeks later and a 53rd victim died in 1990 from injuries sustained in the disaster. On the 9th of April 1968 the Meteorological Service issued a warning at 8:30pm advising that the Cook Strait was going to experience strong southerly winds, rain and poor visibility. A tropical cyclone was also