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Coromel
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Built in Auckland by Mason Brothers for Strongman Shipping, she was powered by two 396hp diesel engines.
Launched on 4 October 1947, she originally operated between Auckland and Coromandel, with a weekly service to Great Barrier Island thrown in. Her name is a combination of her home port - Coromandel - and Philomel, the old RNZ Navy cruiser, from which all the teak on the deck and superstructure of "Coromel" is sourced, along with numerous other fittings.
In 1955 she was acquired by Jurie Shipping Company for fishing in the Chatham Islands, where she operated for twelve years until being purchased by Nelson Fisheries, who on-sold her to Fijian company Friendly Islands trading, for whom she carried out cray-fishing operations in the northern Pacific.
When she called at Onehunga in 1972, it was to complete the handover of "Coromel" to new owners, Rabi Holdings of Suva, who renamed her "Nei Kuana".
She operated for them for thirteen years until Seamech Ltd, also of Suva, acquired her and renamed her "Coromel". She served their cause until 1996, at which point she was lying semi-derelict in Fiji's Bay of Islands.
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