1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/41/8
'Huia' wooden schooner 200 tons [wooden sailing vessel, later fitted with auxiliary engines. Originally: wood, 2 mast schooner, ON102268, 204 gross, 196 net tons. Built 1894 J Barbour, Aratapu, Kaipara, New Zealand, 115.1 x 25.2 x 11.5. Alt. 1898 - re-rigged as topsail schooner, and an aux. engine installed - 80bhp oil engine by Union Gas Eng. Co. San Francisco and 224 gross, 200 net tons. Re-engined in 1922 and now measured 251 gross, 166 net tons. Re-engined in 1931. Topsails removed in 1945. Owners: E Mitchelson and Brothers, registered Auckland. 1900 George McKenzie (and sometimes others), Kaipara. 1912 Nobel Explosives Co. of Glasgow, registered Auckland. 1925 Nobel (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. 1950 Huia Trading Co. registered Suva. Wrecked on Komekame Reef off Cape Queen Charlotte, New Caledonia bound Noumea-Vila. See 'The Log of the Huia' by CW Hawkins, Collins, New Zealand]