HULK BEACHED

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 11

HULK BEACHED

ACCIDENT IN WELLINGTON

HARBOUR

The watchman in charge of, the Union Company's hulk Prince of Wales discovered that, the vessel had sprung a leak at about 8 a.nu yesterday. The Terawhiti was dispatched to the scene of the mishap, and the Prince of Wales was beached at Kaiwarra, near tho Arawatta, which was beached there some time ago. Pumping operations were' commenced, and soon th inflow of water was well under control. The vessel was to be refloated this afternoon and taken to No. 6 Queen's Wharf, where tho Terawhiti will stand by. The coal in the Prince of Wales is to be discharged into the ; Manuka, which is replacing the Mararoa in the Wellington-liyttelton. service, to-mor-row.

The Prince of Wales was built in 1850 for tho Hudson Bay Company, and was christened by King Edward VII. (then Prince of Wales). She was for some years employed in tho Arctic Circle. Later she was engaged.in bringing immigrants to New Zealand, and it was on one of these trips that sho was a silent witness of tho famous battle between tho Kearsage and the Alabama. Some years ago she was converted into a freezing hulk, and lay. at Picton. Finally sho -vyas brought to Wellington to servo as a coal hulk.