There isn’t a New Zealander on the planet who doesn’t know what happened to the Wahine ferry. In a massive storm in Wellington Harbour on 10 April 1968, the Lyttelton–Wellington ferry Wahine sank. It is New Zealand’s worst modern maritime disaster. Fifty-one people lost their lives that day, But while everyone knows that, very few know the story of Joan and Gilbert Beale – members of the Salvation Army who rescued many victims of the disaster that day. We went to meet Joan at her home in 2013 for Shine TV’s Nzone Focus.
