This website was set up by Texas Equusearch to publicise the ongoing search for the Nina. It’s included here as a ‘historical’ reminder of the huge, long search for the Nina and crew.
Despite the unsuccessful search by Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ), it was a view of many people that the Nina was capable of having survived the extremely difficult storm – indeed the crew had messaged to that effect. The search was deemed by the families to have been deficient in a number of ways, and there was no evidence that Nina had foundered. The ‘still surviving’ view was supported by John Glennie, who had himself been officially declared ‘lost at sea’ but survived for 119 days with his 3 companions in his overturned vessel, the Rose Noelle, before drifting on to land. He considered Nina and the crew to be even more capable of surviving than they had been.
The families were supported by Texas Equusearch, the donations from many people, crowd-searching on-line by thousands of people, John Funnell (NZ helicopter rescue pilot), and many more. It is now accepted that the Nina and crew were lost at sea. How, and exactly when, remains a mystery.
The story of the famous Schooner Nina, and the crew of 7 who lost their lives on its final voyage