Shipwreck Off the New Zealand Coast and the Excitement of a Modern Search for gold. By Wade Doak. In Dust Jacket in plastic cover small sellotape marks on covers, end paper maps, contains the treasure coin voucher, First Edition 1969, Signed By Both Wade Doak and Kelvin (Kelly) Tarlton, Black and White Plates, 192 Pages, Published By Hodder and Stoughton Auckland. A Very Good Copy. 'On a foggy November morning in 1902 the Elingamite, a passenger steamer on the run from Sydney to Auckland, was wrecked with a loss of forty-five lives on one of the lonely Three Kings Islands, north of New Zealand. The drama of the wreck, the tragedy and tension of death and rescue, the treasure that went down with the ship have kept the story fresh in the minds of many people in Australia and New Zealand. Over the years there were several attempts to salvage the Elingamite's treasure and these too were attended by tragedy. Then came the news that Wade Doak, Kelvin Tarlton and a party of divers had rediscovered the wreck and brought up gold and silver from the bottom of a dangerous sea. Wade Doak's book is the story of modern adventure, by young men, that stirs the imagination. it also recreates in vivid documentary fashion the tragedy of the wreck, the privations of the victims and the drama of the subsequent inquiry. Apart from salvaging much of the treasure, Wade Doak and his companions made discoveries that offer new evidence on the loss of the Elingamite' Scarce Double signed copy.