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Taupata
sourced from State Library Queensland
Built
1930
LR No.
5353842
Gross
268
Net
143
Dimensions
35.81m x 7.98m
Registered
Nelson
First Arrival
19 April 1932
Last Sailing
29 May 1962
Names
Taupata
YAG 26
Taupata
Years
1930-42
1942-44
1944-unknown

Built in Auckland by G.T. Niccol for Anchor Shipping, she has the distinction of being the only three-funnelled ship on the New Zealand coast!

She also had a steering wheel some two metres in height, essential to move her rudder - cables ran from the wheel aft along the deck to the rudder quadrant, allowing the ship to be steered.

As well as her coastal operations, she also saw service in the Pacific during World War Two, at the Pearl Harbour Naval Base, returning to Auckland on 17 June 1943. She retained her name throughout her career, despite a number of owners.

Following her nineteen years of service for Anchor, she was operated by Nelson's Pearl Kasper Shipping for thirteen years, her only blemish in that time being a stranding on the Waimakariri Bar in 1961.

In 1962, Coastal Services (Motueka) took her over, and it was under their colours that she made her lone visit to Onehunga soon after being acquired.

Three years later, she was damaged by fire, and was laid up for sale, but it wasn't until March 1967 that she left these shores under new ownership, bound for the Seychelles to serve as a mother ship for crayfishing interests.

By early 1970, she had made her way to Ballina in New South Wales, where she lay abandoned by her American owners for six years. She was acquired in 1976 by a Queenslander, K. Cassell, who carried out extensive repairs before readying her for a September voyage to Papua New Guinea carrying refrigerated cargo.

Two months later, she was back in Sydney for more repairs, having suffered storm damage on a visit to Lord Howe Island. The opportunity was taken to re-register her as a pleasure craft around this time, and she was last heard of fishing out of Tweed Heads.
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