THE CORINNA

Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 10

THE CORINNA

SCUTTLED OFF THE HEADS

The old steamer Corinna, which has for some time past been laid up at the Patent Slip, was taken out to sea on Saturday and scuttled. At the end of 1000 feet of tow-line, the Corinna was pulled out of the harbour by the Terawhiti. As everything of value had been taken from the Corinna, she looked very bare and ugly as she made' her way out of the harbour. On tho Terawhiti wore several men who had once served on the Corinna. The Terawhiti took the old steamer past tho, Wellington Heads to a point three and a-quarter miles off Taurakirae Head, and a charge was exploded in her. She sank at 2.44 p.m. in about 140 fathoms of water. In nine minutes after the explosion she was beneath the waves. The Corinna, a single-screw iron steamer,, was built in 1882. Iv the service of the Union Company she carried passengers in the Dunedin-Lyttelton-Wellington run until 1903, when she was sent to San Francisco to have her passenger accommodation removed and to be fitted with refrigerated space. Thenceforth she ran in the coastal cargo service between Dunedin and New Plymouth.