Lutterworth

Official No. 60895: Code Letters HNKD: completed December 1868.

Owners: 1868 Watts, William Milburn & Co, London: 1875 J Grey, London: 1879 W Savill & JW Temple, Southampton: 1882 Shaw Savill & Albion Co Ltd, Southampton: 1906 Colonial Shipping Co (Turnbull & Co) Christchurch, New Zealand: 1907 Union SS Co, Timaru

Masters: 1868 Oliver Phalp (CN.8805 Newcastle-on-Tyne 1853): 1872 JB Reid: 1873 Edward Clark: 1879-87 William Pearson, Whitby: 1887-92 Roland Streater: 1892-99 RA Kelly: 1901-03 GHB Wood-Bromley: 1904-06 H Hicks.

Voyages: 4 September 1883 arrived Liverpool from Portland, Oregon: 2 November 1884 arrived Greenock from Otago, New Zealand: 8 September 1885 arrived Gravesend from Otago, New Zealand: November 1885 arrived East India Dock, London from Napier, New Zealand: 29 August 1888 arrived Otago, New Zealand from the Clyde: 11 May 1889 arrived Falmouth from London.

In October 1906 bound from Timaru for Kaipara in ballast with a crew of 18 all told & the master’s wife during a fierce SE gale in the Cook Straits she was dismasted & her crew were taken off by the steamer Penguin. The abandoned vessel had been sighted from land & the small steamer Aorere & the steamer Duco went out to her. Between them they took the Lutterworth in tow to Wellington. The badly battered vessel was sold to the Union SS Co as a coal hulk.

Crew 1906:

Davies, A, mate, Auckland

On 20 June 1950 the Lutterworth with condemned cargo was sunk as a target in the Cook Strait by the Royal New Zealand Air Force as a training exercise.

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