SHIP AGROUND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12867, 24 May 1905, Page 4

SHIP AGROUND.

Auckland, May 23:-~The barjqsiemWne Elverla-nd^,,, :fro.m Wefljn'gio'n.. to Kaipara, took the* g-ronmd after crossingtho bar olrt ' Saturday last antf. remainad fast for two hours. After being ' gr>t off the vessel was fdim'd making a good deal of .water, artd was towed to 'JEfelenayjlie.

The s.fC;Kiiripdka, which loft Waitara for Piipon-ga an »S|i«r<clay mornwg, an,d.' paiss&di Mot'aroa later in the day tirrder sail, couM not faco t/he SQutborly j*ale blowifrg, when; rounding the Cape, and. put baak and anchored oil the Breakwator. She proceeded lo Piunonga whon the weather mo'derd?fr>d,' eind will return to Iho BroafkwAtrr with' crial.

The offer- to the Admiralty by ihe Wcisfcport Coal Company of tho old iron hitllc, ladybird, which (has lain 4n Wellington Harbour for some yars, ha« boon accepted, ami ia(he will be nsed very shortly as a targtyt for the sailors of H.-M.S. Chall«2ng/sr. Tho eld Ladybird was ljuilt as a steamer in

LiveVpool'in 1951 j 'anti was'Ta'olug'tit by a Melbaui^ne im, and broutg-ht to the colotny. On first entering Port Philip Heads she rail down and sank tmother steamer with all lvanids. 1b 0 New Zealand Steam Nan'igation Co., of Welling-tan, afterwards bang-lit her, and sht) was brong-ht to Now Zealand, and was for some years in the coastal trade. Messrs Drcnfield atifcl Ganjuaway, her next purchasers, converted her 'into a three-masted schooner. She was sokl again and turned into a steamer in Sydney, and came bacik to the New Zealand coastal trade, where she remained until puroh'ased by her present owners. The m;6del of the Ladybird soon fter she was built tocfk a prizo at the^-i/nris Exhibition. She was a fast sailer, arid among- her best porformiaiitees was a four an;d a half days!' run l-etwoen Newcastle aiul Wellhigjton Heads.