c. 1863, Photograph, PRG 1373/30/31
The iron barque 'Lutterworth', 916 tons, at Port Chalmers [iron ship, re-rigged as 3 mast barque c.1880, 915 gross, 883 net tons. ON60895. 209.2 x 33.1 x 19.9, built 1868 (11) Denton, Gray and Co. Hartlepool. Owners: William Milburn, registered London. c.1875 WH Taylor. c.1880 Shaw, Savill and Co. Later Shaw, Savill and Albion. 1906 Colonial Sailing Ship Co. Ltd. (Turnbull and Co.) registered Lyttelton. Severely damanged in a gale, and dismasted, off Kaikoura, New Zealand Sept. 30, 1906. Towed into port but sold to Union Sailing Ship Co. of New Zealand Ltd., who converted the vessel into a coal hulk. In June 1950, vessel was sunk in Cook Strait by Airforce planes in bombing practice. Well known in the New Zealand emmigrant trade].