[3] During the 1951 French rugby league tour of Australasia the Wellington side hosted a match against the tourists.
During the 1988 Great Britain Lions tour, Wellington were defeated by the Britons 18 – 24 at Porirua Park before a crowd of 4,428.
They narrowly missed out on a finals spot in 2002, being on equal points but with a lower For and Against than the Marist Richmond Brothers.
The Orca nickname was adopted for the 2006 season, adopting the name from the Southern Orcas consortium – a group attempting to gain an expansion National Rugby League competition licence that was instead granted to the Gold Coast Titans group.
Wellington Rugby League were awarded a place in the new six-team National Provincial Competition.
[5] Wellington was put in the NZRL National Competition after the Bartercard Premiership disbanded.