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Gael
 Sourced from the Sir George Grey Collection, Auckland Libraries, 1370-506-06
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Built of wood by Chas Bailey Jnr for W.A. McGregor in Auckland, she was swiftly sold to Settlers Co., and taken over by the Northern Steamship Company in 1908.
The victim of a number of incidents during her time sporting the black-topped white funnel, she was laid up in 1927 then sold to the South Westland Shipping Company in 1931.
They converted her into a motorship - she was built as a steamship - in her new home port of Hokitika, which was where she sailed from and returned to when making her two visits to Onehunga in 1946 - the above picture shows her arriving at Hokitika.
Five years prior, however, she was briefly chartered by the Navy for the war effort. She was sold to the Southern Cross Shipping Co in 1948, and it was while sporting their colours that she met her end on 18 April 1952.
While on passage from Motueka to Wellington with 1800 cases of apples in her hold, she struck Beef Barrel Rocks at the southern end of D'Urville Island, and was holed on the port side. The crew abandoned ship, and she eventually sank two days later, having meanwhile been lifted off the rocks by the forces of nature, drifting across Cook Strait to her final resting place, off Okure Point in French Pass.
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