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Awanui
 Taken by Peter Davey, www.seatheships.org.uk
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Built in Hong Kong for the Northern Steam Ship Company, she is powered by one 1200hp De Industrie diesel.
She has one 10 tonne derrick, one 5 tonne derrick and three 3 tonne derricks.
Despite being launched in February 1962, she didn't arrive in Auckland on her delivery voyage until 25 January 1963, the delay arising from fit-out issues. Her arrival at Onehunga in 1964 made her the biggest general cargo vessel to visit the port for over forty years - since the days of Union Steam Ship Company vessel calls concluded in September 1924, to be precise.
She traded from both Auckland and Onehunga to South Island ports, including the carriage of shipping construction machinery, materials and supplies to Deep Cove in Doubtful Sound, for use in the construction of the West Arm (Lake Manapouri) Power Station and tail-race tunnel. This was the biggest coastal shipping contract ever let in New Zealand, and involved three other Northern Steam Ship Company vessels.
 Sourced from Ships of NZ Facebook page
She was sold to Singaporean interests in 1973, while another Singapore company acquired her in 1979 (above) before Panamanian interests bought her in 1982.
She foundered off southern Tien Gang Province, Vietnam, in January 2007.
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