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Apanui
 Sourced from the collection of D. Wright
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Built by G. Renck Jr. in Hamburg, she is powered by one Motoren Werke Mannheim diesel engine, producing a service speed of 9 knots.
Initially owned by H.S. Wilson in London, she was acquired by the Northern Steamship Company in 1948 and was a popular vessel among her officers and crew, who described her as a good ship to handle, despite her reduced freeboard when loaded, which meant she'd have been rather wet when at sea!
Her regular run took in the ports of New Plymouth, Wanganui, Milnethorpe (between 1956-60) and Picton, as well as Onehunga, with the odd visit to Lyttelton. She also visited Raglan, and made the last three visits of any ship to Kawhia in the early 1950s. Her regular cargoes were timber and sacks of dolomite, while whalebone was among the cargo loaded at Picton for Onehunga.
In September and October 1952, she revived the Onehunga - Hokianga journey last made by A.G. Frankham's scow "Hokianga". Two 300 ton loads of manure were shipped to the northern destination on behalf of the Maori Affairs Department.
During 1954, a Parnell electrical engineer, G. Webster, was contracted to convert some old 50hp tram motors into electric winches, capable of lifting two tons of cargo. They were installed aboard "Apanui" in November that year.
She remained in the fleet until 1961, when she was sold to H. Williams in the Cook Islands. She was later acquired by D.C. Brown, and in 1964, was declared unseaworthy, and was scuttled outside Avatiu Harbour, Rarotonga, in 1965.
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