Second Stormy Sunday

We drove to Motueka this afternoon and came across the ship wreck of Janie Seddon. It was low tide and threatening to rain so I only had time to take a few quick photos. 
But, I'll definitely be back at full tide to get some shots with reflections and again at sunset to capture some colours.

It was an intriguing wreck, and when I got home I googled some information about it.
Here's what I discovered.

'Janie Seddon' was built in 1901 in Scotland for the New Zealand government, to be used as a submarine mining vessel (laying of mines in harbours). The ship spent its first years in Wellington as an examination vessel in both World Wars. 
In 1946 Janie Seddon was sold to Talley's Fisheries and adapted to trawl fishing. Vessels of that size were not permitted to fish within three miles of the N.Z. Coast - so she was unable to fish in Tasman Bay (which was rich in snapper). Her small coal capacity only allowed her to spend five days at sea and she would often come into Port with only half of the ship's holds full of fish. Thus proving to be uneconomical, she was sold to a Christchurch company for scrap. However the ship's steel was so hard there were problems trying to cut it up. So eventually she was towed by a bulldozer onto the foreshore and beached in 1955.