OLD SHIP'S FATE
VESSEL TO BE DISMANTLED BARQUE USED AS COAL HULK After 45 years' sea service and 14 years as a coal hulk the British barque Eothsay Bay is being dismantled by shipbreakers at the eastern reclamation, Mechanics' Bay. The vessel was an iron barque of 768 tons when she was built by Messrs. Birrell, Stenhouse and Company at Dumbarton in 1877. After a number of years under the British flag she was sold to Norwegians and her name was changed to Activ. Early in the Great War when she visited Australia she was sold *to a Sydney company, which gave her the name Eothsay Bay. During the war years she traded from Zealand and Australia to America and after the war she was employed in the intercolonial trade, bringing coal from Newcastle to New Zealand and returning to Australia with timber. In 1921 she was withdrawn from sea service and was sold to the Union Company for a coal hulk. The increase in the number of motor-ships, and also steamers which use oil fuel instead of coal, has involved the use of fewer coal hulks, which are gradually disappearing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22399, 21 April 1936, Page 5
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