Taken from the yardarm of the barque
C Tobias, showing Railway Wharf and barque
Lake Erie, with Ponsonby (left background) and Chelsea (right background) .
Lake Erie was built in 1868, in Glasgow, Scotland by Barclay, Curle & Co, and altered to a barque in 1885 The ship traded between Great Britain, Montreal, and other ports around the world, including visits to Auckland and Port Adelaide in the late 19th century. She was eventually sold to foreigners, likely Italian subjects, in 1902 and broken up in 1914.
Dimensions: 202.4 feet (61.7 meters) long, 33.6 feet wide, depth of 20.3 feet. capacity 988 grt.
(Auckland Public Library collection)
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