SeapixOnlineDisplaying 1 of 5 GUY C. GOSS (1879/1527 tons) - This image, supplied to Seapixonline.com by Mr. R.J. (Bob) Hawkins of Dunsford Marine Ltd, Auckland, was taken by his father Clifford in 1926 when GUY C. GOSS arrived in Auckland.
She was a 214ft wooden barque built with whaling money in 1879 in Bath, Maine, USA by Goss and Sawyer.
The New York Times of 21 July 1891 states that "anxiety" was felt in shipping and railway circles after Guy C. Goss having sailed from Japan with a consignment of 30288 packages of tea valued at US$450.000 was overdue by some twelve days and storms were raging along her intended route. However, according to the NY Times, she arrived safely at Tacoma, Washington four days later with the shipment intact.
She spent her early years also carrying timber but later was actively engaged in the Alaskan salmon fishing industry.
After years laying idle, under new owners, she arrived in New Zealand waters in 1926 shipping a consignment of timber to Auckland. On arrival she was arrested because of outstanding crew wages and disbursements totalling £1500. She was used by local Auckland sea scouts as a training ship but was sold at public auction and was run ashore by her new owners at Wharekawa on the eastern shores of the Firth of Thames, SE of Auckland. Some years later she burnt to the waterline and today lays beneath the wreck of the Royal New Zealand Navy wooden-planked minesweeper HMNZS HINAU.
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