AN EVENTFUL HISTORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17909, 11 October 1921, Page 8

AN EVENTFUL HISTORY.

THE BARQUE WEATHERSFIELD. ||| Further recollections of the banji»y Weathersfield have been forwarded by Mk S H. C. Cornish, of Te Aroha_, who had read m Mr. Ales. Murray's letter in the Eebalß% of October 5. Mr. Cornish writes thai*;-;, when the Weathersfield was wrecked **M the mouth of the Otaki River she was.;| stranded for three vears, and was chased by the late Mr. T. G. and Mr. J. Saunders. With the assistance,-, oi spring tides the vessel was worked ob ; ; the beach and towed to Wellington. Sh|twas refitted and loaded with tallow and flax and sent to London under coinmaw ■- of Captain Holcroft. The WeathersSeW;§• made the voyage to London safely, &&):■; returned to Wellington. When entering' Cook Strait she experienced stormy .' ther, and was so badly damaged that so* - was not expected to make port. Whss.v she did reach Wellington hundreds _0j people were on the wharf watching "!%S; : berth. She made another four voyages « London and one or two to Newcastle Mr|| fore being sold to the Union Company a» 4 . converted into a hulk. -nr^"-" There seems to have been some conrasiM«. as to the identity of the Dartford andtpWeathersneld. the Dartford was a shift and is now a hulk at Auckland, whUe «» Weathersfield, which was a barque, l» coal hulk at Suva. -•'..