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Moanui
Taken by M.E.D. Downes / Peter Davey, www.seatheships.org.uk
Built
1961
LR No.
5237983
Gross
975
Net
400
Dimensions
65.84m x 11.33m
Registered
Auckland
First Arrival
24 February 1962
Last Sailing
9 February 1966
Names
Moanui
Moanul
Alagna
Eurika
Aik Lai
Years
1961-66
1966
1966-73
1973-75
1975-84

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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