WHERE OLD SHIPS LIE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 10

WHERE OLD SHIPS LIE.

GRAVEYARD ON WATERFRONT.

BURIED IN THE MUD.

OBSOLETE COASTAL STEAMERS. Subsidence on the western reclamation of- the waterfront has exposed part of the hull of one of the old steamers buried there some years ago. When the reclamation was in the course of being filled, it was made a graveyard for several old steamers which were years ago well known in the coastal trade. One was the Northern Company's wooden steamer Chelmsford, which for ■ many years traded between Auckland and northern ports. Part of the Chelmsford's bows are still showing, and the wood is in a good state of preservation. Close by the Chelmsford the steel • steamer Kanieri, owned by the Union Steamship Company and Northern Steamship Company in turn, was buried. As she was flattened out before final disposal, no trace of the s old iron steamer remains. Side by side with the remains of the Kanieri lies the remnants of the Huia, s an iron steamer which was used a little in the Auckland coastal trade after long association with Southern ports. She was similarly flattened before going to her grave in the harbour mud. t