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Rimu
 Sourced from Alexander Turnbull Library - Reference number G-16622-2/2
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Built by Allsup & Co at Preston in 1898 for K. Ramsay of Dunedin, she was acquired by the Northern Steamship Company a decade later.
She suffered numerous incidents during her career, three of them in her first ten years of service around the South Island. Sporting Northern's colours, she twice ran aground at the Manukau Heads, on 28 May 1911 and 23 January 1922, and suffered damage while crossing the Bar on 19 December 1921, almost three years to the day since a fire broke out while she was alongside at Onehunga.
In between times, she damaged a hull plate at Hokianga in July 1917, while in the early 1920s, she was employed to bring back the overflow of spectators from the Onerahi Regatta in Whangarei, a temporary licence having been granted her to carry an extra seventy passengers - too many, as it turned out, with on-board conditions proving rather uncomfortable.
Another significant event occured on February 27, 1918. A pregnant lady was travelling aboard "Rimu" from Kawhia to Onehunga in order to give birth to her third child at an Auckland nursing home. But she became violently seasick while the vessel was crossing the Manukau Bar, and gave birth to a daughter on the Manukau as the ship was heading to Onehunga!
At the end of 1926, she was withdrawn from service and laid up for five years, before being dismantled in 1932. Her hull was run ashore for a breakwater at Rotoroa Island in the Hauraki Gulf.
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