TO GO TO AUCKLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 8

TO GO TO AUCKLAND

BARQUE HELEN DENNY

After service as a hulk in Lyttelton Harbour for the past 11 years, the Helen "Denny, a wool clipper built on the Clyde in 1866, is to be towed to Auckland as.soon as the opportunity arises for further service as a coal hulk. She i,s still in a good state of preservation and will replace the wellknown, barque Gladbrook, which was blown up a few days ago off Rangitoto Island.

The Helen Denny was aa iron ship of 695 tons, owned by Patrick Henderson and Co., of Glasgow, and her name was a compliment to the wife of the then manager of Denny and Co., the famous Dumbarton shipbuilders. For a few years she ran between Glasgow and Rangoon in the Henderson service. On the company's amalgamation with Shaw Savill to form the new Shaw Savill and Albion Company, the vessel (which was then a barque, having been changed to the latter rig a few years after her launch) entered the New Zealand trade. She remained in that service' from 1874 to 1896, when she was purchased by Messrs. G. McClatchie and Co., of Christchurch, who in 1899 sold her to Captain F. Holm, of Wellington, who continued to run her in the intercolonial trade until 1912. She was then sold to the Paparoa Coal Company for use as a hulk, and later to the Union Steam Ship Company. She was a familiar sight for many years about the, Wellington waterfront until towed to Lyttelton in 1934.