taken by Charlie Hill / PWR, www.shipspotting.com
Photo shows vessel as "Johanna Scheele", prior to her time as "Lali"
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Built in Ulsteinvik, she is powered by two 600hp Wickmann diesel engines, producing a service speed of 11 knots. She has a crew of ten.
Capable of carrying both general cargo and serving as a tanker, she has a general cargo hatch and is fitted with six tanks, mainly for carrying vegetable oils.
Hetherington Kingsbury financed her purchase for Warner Pacific Line, with her delivery voyage commencing in Durban, South Africa. She had a single skin hull, so leakage meant seawater mixed with the cargo - cue cargo claims from many a cargo owner over time.
On her lone call into Onehunga, she was carrying 250 tons of waste oil from Sydney, bound for Te Papapa's Dominion Oil Refinery Company. The cargo was pumped straight from the ship into road tankers and driven to its destination.
Warner Pacific Line eventually mothballed the ship, and the ship "Seini" towed "Lali", along with "Tasi", to Kaohsiung in Taiwan, where all three vessels were broken up in 1988.
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