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of the Naval
Artillery Volunteers, arrived at Lyttelton in the course of a tour of inspection. Captain McLellan, the harbour master and commanding officer of the Lyttelton unit met him at the station and escorted him to where the torpedo boat was waiting, steamed up at Gladstone Pier. A trip was made
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describes the vessel's performance as "enough to make a marine engineer weep tears of gall!". Her engine was so rusty that only 12.5 knots (23 km/h) could be got out of her. The steam engines quickly used up all supplies of fresh water and the tanks had to be refilled with salt water, the boat
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was eventually used in a nearby paddock as a watering trough, the steel plating, funnels, and deck fittings long since removed. Her ignominious end was the result of neglect and misuse from the time of her arrival at
Lyttelton. In 1909 the Mt. Herbert County Council used a
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launch proprietor. He removed many parts and dumped the hull on the Purau Beach. Her engines were given to the School of
Engineering at Canterbury University. For many years the rusty remains of
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Erskine Point, but enthusiasm seems to have been short-lived; she spent most of her time out of the water to preserve her
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Volunteers for this dreary performance but rather the inability of the Government to provide a full-time engineer to service her.
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round Ripa Island to observe the progress of the defence works and then on to Little Port Cooper. The trip was not a success;
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285:Acquisition
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861:1883 ships
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458:References
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