This memorial to Les & Barrie Styles Foreshore near Ngamotu Marine Park Display Centre, Oceanview Parade.
Plaque under Seat:
This Resting Place is in Memory
of
Les Styles and his son Barrie
who while commercial fishing from the boat
"Arohanui"
disappeared off the
New Plymouth coast
on the morning of
Tuesday 2nd September 1986
Related documents:
No sign of Taranaki fisherman (Taranaki Herald 3 September 1986)
Seamen search continues (Taranaki Herald 4 September1986)
Boat found (Taranaki Herald 5 September 1986)
Wreckage found (Taranaki Herald 8 September 1986)
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