1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/41/60
'Ilma' steel barquentine 318 tons [steel 3 mast brigantine, 345 gross, 318 net tons. ON102065, 145.8 x 27.05 x 11.1. Built 1885 Grangemouth DD and SB Co. Grangemouth. First registered GT Nicoll, purchased and sold 1904 to EJ Crisp, registered the vessel at Auckland (30/1903) for a syndicate who later formed "The Ship Ilma Ltd) at Gisborne. Sold in 1908 to Edward Pike and Co Ltd., timber millers etc. Sydney registered Sydney 43/1908. 1911 sold to JC Edwards, registered Hobart 6/1911 and in 1919 sold to Union SS Co. of NZ Ltd., who converted her into a hulk (I Farquhar, 'Union Fleet 1875-1975) she was converted to a hulk in Hobart by the Union Co. in 1911, which does not agree with the Customs register, but it seems the Union Co. acquired her c.1914 when she was being used as a store ship, and due to wartime shortage of shipping re-rigged her as a barque in 1917, then in 1919 converted to a hulk in Auckland, and fitted her out at a coal bunkering elevator in 1922 for Wellington. Scuttled in Cook Strait Feb. 11, 1937]