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Aranui
Sourced from Auckland Maritime Society Collection, New Zealand
Built
1945
LR No.
5021712
Gross
243
Net
181
Dimensions
31.49m x 7.19m
Registered
Auckland
First Arrival
16 July 1946
Last Sailing
7 August 1946
Names
YF1046
Aranui
Years
1945-46
1946-77

Built of wood in Auckland by United Ship & Boatbuilders & Steel Ships Ltd, she was intended to be a powered lighter for service with the US Navy in the Pacific during World War Two.

The war finished before she could be completed, so the NZ Government took her over and ensured she was completed before briefly chartering her to the Northern Steamship Company from May 1946 to September 1947.

It was during this period that she made her Onehunga calls. She was sold to Winstone Ltd to carry bagged cement between Portland and Auckland, a trade which lasted until 1960, when she was laid up.

She was eventually sold to Tahitian interests, and was wrecked on Tuamoto Archipelago, north-east of Tahiti, on 15 September 1977.




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