1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/42/23
'Laira' iron barque 492 tons [iron 3 mast barque, 492 gross, 458 net tons. ON62152, 156.1 x 27.35 x 16.65. Built 1870 (3) William Pile and Co., Sunderland. Owners: Richard Hill, registered Plymouth. June 1882 CB Stone and others. Registered Auckland: Feb. 1889 Henry Guthrie, registered Dunedin: 1893 H Anderson: 1893 John Paterson, Dunedin: 1898 Union SS Co. of New Zealand Ltd., as a hulk at Port Chalmers: 1900 John Gibbons: 1904 EJ Rogers, registered Hobart: 1908 JJ Craig, registered Auckland, and apparently re-rigged: 1910 Huddart, Parker and Co. Ltd, registered Melbourne for use as a hulk and register closed in 1912]