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Personal Details
| Name: | William Best
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| Position/Rank: | Captain
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| Ethnicity: | NZ?
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| Date of Birth: |
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| Date of Death: | Believed 04/01/1891
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| Age at Death: |
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| Location of Death: | Vessel last seen steaming from Lusitania Bay 03/01/1891.
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Vessel
| Name: | SS Kakanui (on Government Charter).
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| Date of Accident: | Believed 04/01/1891
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| Location of Accident: | Macquarie Islands
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| See also: |
Eckhoff, Jacob
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| Further Info: | Further information in New Zealand Shipwrecks 1795 to 1960. Page 243.
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Comments
Vessel believed lost with all hands the day after leaving Macquarie Islands on the 03/01/1891. Nineteen lives were lost.
Vessel - Photograph in New Zealand Shipwrecks 1795 to 1960 opposite page 217.
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