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Maasmond
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Built in Frederikshavn, she is powered by one 1000hp MaK diesel, producing a service speed of 11 knots.
Ice strengthened, she has three 5 tonne derricks, and was launched on 2 February 1971 for Danish owners. She can carry 44 containers, or breakbulk and machinery totalling 2300 cubic metres.
When she first arrived at Onehunga, she was carrying a cargo of Australian hardwood telegraph poles. She endured quite a few incidents after the last of three visits to Onehunga in 1992, a year in which she required ten weeks' worth of repairs after sailing in cyclones on a cruise through the Pacific.
On 27 August 1993, she suffered an engine breakdown off Lautoka, and was towed into port before sailing for Port Vila, where she arrived on 11 September 1993 before a same-day departure to Yamba.
 At the start of 1997, she was chartered by Waysang Kumkee, a Kiribati businessman, for a voyage from Tarawa to Christmas Island, carrying 290 passengers and 400 tons of cargo, including rice and canned food.
On 7 January, some 500 miles east of Tarawa, she suffered a switchboard fire, and was adrift in the Pacific until spotted by an RNZAF P-3K Orion. Despite having partial electrical power and no propulsion, due to the fire damaging the electrical systems, she was able to limp back to port under her own steam for repairs, before resuming the voyage eleven days after the incident.
In October 1998, "Maasmond", then owned by Roslyndale Shipping, replaced "Sitka" on the Norfolk Island trade. Sixteen months later, she became the first cargo vessel to call at Greymouth for 24 years to load 550 tonnes of timber for Australia (see photo arriving above).
Soon after, she was replaced by "Norfolk Guardian" on the Auckland - Norfolk Island - Yamba service which she had been operating for a number of years for the Norfolk Island Shipping Enterprise Line.
"Maasmond" was subsequently renamed and began trading in the mid-Pacific, but no details of her name change nor her present status have come to light.
 taken by Charlie Hill / PWR, www.shipspotting.com
Photo shows vessel as "Brigit", prior to her time as "Maasmond"
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