Taken by M.E.D. Downes / Peter Davey, www.seatheships.org.uk
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Built in Hong Kong for Northern Steam Ship Company, she had a small refrigerated hold immediately forward of the accommodation, and was also the first ship on the New Zealand coast to be fitted with bipod masts.
Her time on the coast was short-lived thanks to the opposition provided by the rail ferries, and she was laid up and sold in March 1966, going on to serve Australian interests initially - they saw fit to replace her mainmast (the middle bipod) with an electric crane - before being broken up in Indonesia in 1984.
During her time on the coast, she was primarily employed in carrying frozen food, beer and general supplies from Onehunga to Deep Cove in Doubtful Sound, where the Manapouri power scheme was centred. This was the biggest coastal shipping contract ever let in New Zealand, and involved three other Northern Steam Ship Company vessels.
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