HINEMOA

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 140, 15 June 1928, Page 8

HINEMOA

(To the Editor.) Sir, —The "write-up" of the old Hinemoa made a particularly interesting column. These faithfully-built iron ships are wonders in their old age. They apparently will not submit to the ravages of time. The Stella (a smaller and even more graceful sister of the Hinemoa, and of just the same age) was, when I was in Dunedin recently, fitting out to undertake another lease of almost active life in Dusky Sound, where she will be used as a refrigerating ship and store for fish. These two vessels, with their "lines" of true clipper-like beauty, still reflect much glory upon the ago that built them. I hope that some day some worthy writer like Will Lawson will sing their praises and recount their many adventures. They would fill a goodly volume. The stirring tale of the Stella's voyage out to New Zealand from Home, and her almost "turtling" through loftiness of spars in a gale in Biscay, would make quite an epic of the sea._ You mention that Queen Victoria held G4 shares in the Hinemoa. This simply means that the whole ownership o£ the vessel rested in the Crown. Vessels were in those old days always considered as such a number or the whole of 61 shares. -I am, etc., B M<KENZIE . |- "