THE OLD ILLAWARRA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12752, 2 May 1912, Page 4

THE OLD ILLAWARRA.

One by one the splendid old Bailing ships which at one time ran regularly under the red ensign between this co unity and Australia are passing off the register, says the. London Shipping Gazette. On March 7th, from the Old Head of Kinsnle came the news that the British steamer Bengore Head hai. during her voyage from St. John, N. 8., to Dublin, rescued tho crew of ■ the Norweginn Y^iilinir ship Iltawarra, which had been abandon -d ih the* North Atlantic. The Illawarra at tho i!me of her loss was on a voyage from Leitlt i» Valparaiso, having sailed from the Scottish nort on February 12th. It is about 30 years "iigo th^tfc this old iron 1800-ton ship was sei>t refloat from the Clyde-Ride yard of Messrs Dchie ami Co., and durjng the greater part of thai pe,riod she was a London owned vessel, tradirto regularly to the Antipodes.. She made her "voyrgi-s under the house-flag of Messrs Devitt ji)ld M«:i". who employed her nnd the famous' "old Ma> - iiitrie ns training ships for !nicls!)i;-:'.'rt:. ThYMacquarie was sold to the \ T onv : ir'ri» , « m 1905, when she was 30 years old, and :i couple of years or so later the London firm disposed of the Illawarra, nlso to Norwegians. Tlie Macquarle, probably one of the stoutest built metal ships ever constructed, is, we believe, still doing useful service m Australian waters as a coal hulk. Many officers now serving m tho merchant service, nnd who gained-, their early seit ( raining on board the Illawarra, will learn wi^h regret That the old packet has at last met her fate. .