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Jean Philippe
 taken by Alex Wood / Chris Howell, www.seatheships.co.uk
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Built in Uddevalla, she is powered by one 675hp Mirrlees, Bickerton & Day diesel, producing a service speed of 10.3 knots.
Ice strengthened, she has four 3 tonne derricks.
She has a chequered history, with a lengthy wrangle in 1968 between her owners and the Federation Of Labour regarding seamen's wage rates followed by another wage-related dispute leading to the ship being declared 'black' in January 1971.
She was held up for a month in Whangarei while that was resolved, then nearly sank at the wharf hours before she was due to sail - a faulty valve allowed over 100,000 gallons of water to enter the engine room ...
Two years earlier, in 1969, she'd suffered another mishap. Having completed a charter to Beazley Homes to carry prefabricated houses to Bougainville Island, she commenced another charter from Ringgi Cove in the Solomon Islands, carrying logs to Brisbane.
En route, the ship rolled onto her side, flooding the accommodation and engine room. Part of the deck cargo of logs had to be jettisoned to right the ship, and after the affected areas had been pumped out, the voyage resumed. At one stage the ship's life rafts were towed astern lest she need to be abandoned!
In June 1972, as reported in the 'Auckland Star', she was 220 miles from Rarotonga en route to Whangarei to pick up more construction material for the Rarotonga Airport project when a fuel pipe burst. Cue every sailor's worst nightmare - a fire at sea, with severe damage to the ship's electrical systems the result.
Captain Charles Nesbitt and his crew were able to restart the engines and limp back to Auckland, with "Lorena", the nearest vessel to "Jean Phillipe", keeping an eye on proceedings should the need to undertake towing duties be required.
She had previously visited Onehunga as "Onehunga" - refer also to that ship. And for a few days in November 1973, she was known as "Tung Ho 2" while alongside at Onehunga, before reverting to "Jean Phillipe" prior to departure for Manila via New Plymouth ... don't ask!
She was subsequently sold to Malaysian interests, and was last heard of laid up in Kallang in 1983.
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Sourced from Ships of NZ Facebook page