Taken by Ray Smith, www.shipspotting.com
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Built in Groningen, and powered by one 1200hp Deutz diesel, producing a service speed of 12 knots.
She has one 15 tonne derrick and six 3 tonne derricks, and is crewed by ten.
Compagnie Wallisienne de Navigation, of Wallis & Futuna Islands, utilised her services in the Pacific throughout the late 1970s, while when she called at Onehunga in the 1980s and 1990s, she was flying the Warner Pacific Line flag.
She was employed by the Rarotonga Line on the Cook Islands run in 1988 and 1989, scoring a hole above the waterline on August 18, 1988, when striking the wharf at Avatiu, Rarotonga. She was broken up in Sachana in May 1995.
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