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River City
 Taken by Robin Scott, www.seatheships.org.uk
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Built in Lobith, she was powered by one 360hp MaK diesel, producing a service speed of 9 knots.
Originally built for the Wanganui Shipping Company, she operated a Wanganui - Wellington - Lyttelton - Timaru service as "River City", she suffered a cargo fire while at sea on 7 November 1959 and had to put in to Kaikoura for the local volunteer fire service to douse the flames. The ship emerged unscathed, not so the cargo.
 Following her sale to Holm Shipping, her first call to Onehunga was in July 1964, and her arrival made her the biggest general cargo vessel to visit the port since the days when Union Steam Ship Company's vessels called into Onehunga.
Soon after, she was renamed "Holmbrae", under which name she traded between Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington and New Plymouth, a service which was later extended to Onehunga and Raglan.
Within two years, she had been sold to New Hebrides interests, and aside from a two-year charter to International Geophysical - oil exploration work in Bass Strait was her calling during this period - she operated for them for 22 years before being laid up in mid-1988. On 19 December 1989, she was scuttled as a dive wreck on the western side of Abokisa Island, Vanuatu.
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Sourced from Ships of NZ Facebook page