OLD HULKS BURNT.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 12

OLD HULKS BURNT.

The blackened shell of the hulk Elinor Vornon, stripped of its fittings and stiilled with inflammable rubbish, set out on its'last voyage on (states the "New Zealand Herald") Three hours later, deliberately wrecked on tho north-east bight of liangitoto, opposite Islington Bay, tho old ship, flred fore and aft, bade a spectacular adieu to Its destroyers as tho flames did their devouring work. A spurt of flamo forward spelt the beginning of the Elinor Vernon's end. The old saloon'had been heaped high with advertising booklets, unwanted correspondence, and superfluous letterpress from the offices of the Union Steam Ship Company, and tills mass of light literature quickly blazed into • a bonfire, which soon began to eat greedily into tho oak timbers of the deserted ship. There was little sadness of farewell. Tho Elinor Vcrnon was not built on trim and jaunty lines, and what history. attaches to its 00 years of service has been mostly forgotten. For many years tho vessel was engaged in tho American-New Zealand cargo trade, but long service as a hulk has shorn the glamour and dimmed . tho remembrance of the barque's earlier days. The Polly, onto a Norwegian barquentine, was taken out on Friday morning to share the Elinor Vernon's fate on tho rocks of north-east Rangltoto.