OLD-TIME BARQUE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 7

OLD-TIME BARQUE

THE GENEVIE M. TUCKER AN IGNOBLE END (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. A more or less uneventful life has been enjoyed by the old wooden barque, Gemevie M. Tucker, whose days as a coal hulk at Auckland are nearing an end. Built at Portland, Maine, some £6 years ago, the Genevie M. Tucker was after the style of thc x American whaling barques of her tune, and was never a fast sailer. After making a number of voyages across the Pacific she was purchased by the Westport Coal Co. about 25 years ago, arriving at this port from Newcastle with a full load of coal. When first dismantled she was used as a lighter, but later took up a position ii. “ rotten row,” in the role of a hulk. The vessel did good work in bunkering (he Oceanic Line steamers Sonoma, Seirra, arid Ventura. Some eight years ago she was sold to her present owners, the Devonport Steam Ferry Co. Being a ” soft wood ’’ ship, the Genevie M. Tucker’s period of usefulness is almost finished, and as soon as the Columbia, which is being converted into a hulk‘at- the Central wharf, is ready to commence her new duties, the old sailer will be towed 1o Brown’s Island and set on fire.