 In late February 1971 she was embayed during a full gale and, after attempting to beat her way out for several days, on 22 February was driven onto the bar of Parengarenga Harbour, a few miles south of North Cape, New Zealand, and wrecked.Her hull was constructed of mahogany planking on heavy fir frames with spars of Sitka spruce.Her three-sectioned mainmast rose from deck to truck.