Plimmers Ark
Plimmer's Ark, Wellington
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Plimmer's Ark was the hulk of the Nova Scotia built ship Inconstant which was damaged entering Wellington Harbour in 1849. Set on the Wellington foreshore local merchant John Plimmer used the hull for a warehouse and had intended to use her as a wharf as well, but this was undone by the Wellington Earthquake of 1850 which lifted the local level by over a metre. A wharf was added to get to the now distant deeper water. The 'Ark" was a feature of early Wellington.
Later development buried the remains untilthey were exposed in a redevelopment in 1997. Part of the bilge timbers can be seen through a glass floor in the Old Bank Complex,
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