The Incredible Hulks

While I've been researching the hulks of Quail Island I took a random sample of other hulks reported in Papers Past. They may not be wrecks as in a maritime accident, but regardless these once proud vessels still had stories to tell long after they had been laid up, then eventually broken up or sunk then forgotten. I like old vessels - more so when they have a story to tell. There's a few names there. Just short and sweet.

THE FOUNDERING OF THE ELI WHITNEY.

Wellington, March 3.

Captain Williams, proprietor of the sunken hulk Eli Whitney, has demanded of the Union Company £3000 in compensation of loss sustained by the Taupo running into the hulk. The Union Company have declined to pay any sum.

West Coast Times 5 March 1877

THE ELI WHITNEY.

Wellington, Jan. 29. A second and third attempt to blow up the hulk Eli Whitney were failures.

Grey River Argus 31 January 1878

CONVERTED INTO A HULK

SYDNEY, June 27 The well-known New Zealand trader Elizabeth Graham has been sold to a Melbourne Steamship Company for a hulk.

Grey River Argus 6 June 1906

  

COAL-LADEN HULK SINKS.

(Per Press Association) . LYTTELTON, April 6. The hulk Blackwall sank at the wharf through a seam opening. The hulk was insured for £4,000, and had 1,300 tons of coal aboard.

Bay of Plenty Times 8 April 1907

END OF THE ORETI.

[United Peess Association.] Wellington, Feb. 11. The hulk Oreti, which had been condemned, was taken out into Cook Strait, off Lyall Bay, and sunk by the guns of the forts.

Colonist 12 February 1915

  

REFITTING A HULK.

(Per Press Association.)

DTJJNEDIN, July 26

The Union Steam Ship Company has decided to refit another hulk as a seagoing vessel. The steamer Te Anau will leave Auckland to-day with the County of Anglesea in tow for Port Chalmers, where the hulk will be refitted.

Ashburton Guardian 27 July 1918

  

GANYMEDE'S LAST TRIP

The Union Company hulk Ganymede, which is to be broken up at Nelson, left her moorings in Evans Bay in tow of the Titoki shortly, before 7 o'clock yesterday morning.

Evening Post  21 May 1934

 HULK DANCE HALL

VESSEL FOUND SINKING

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The Show Boat floating cabaret was discovered shortly after midnight to be making water rapidly. For some ( months this former sailing vessel has been conducted as a dance club. Today the dance floor was eight to ten feet under water. The police are investigating the matter, it being alleged that eight holes made with an auger were discovered in the side of the hulk.

  

Evening Post 28 November 1936