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Holmbank
 
Holmbank, September 20, 1964. Image 6 of 14
Photographer: Jan Shuttleworth. Source: Kete Christchurch - refer link below
Built
1948
Official No.
184530
Gross
515
Net
244
Dimensions
52.82m x 8.66m
Registered
Wellington
First Arrival
15 December 1962
Last Sailing
13 September 1963
Names
Anne
Sunnygirl
Turihaua
Holmbank
Years
1948-50
1950-52
1952-62
1962-63

Built in Bergen, she was powered by two six-cylinder BMV diesel engines.

She was acquired by the Gisborne Sheepfarmers Frozen Meat & Mercantile Company in 1952 and operated on the New Zealand coast as "Turihaua" for both that operation and Napier-based Richardson & Co, to whom she was sold in September 1955.

She had plenty of close calls during her days. In December 1952, she struck a submerged rock off Tuahine Point and was holed and towed to Auckland, where repair work took five months.

She ran aground on a shoal in Tokomaru Bay in 1953, and was damaged at Auckland's Kings Wharf a year later, before being stranded on Great Mercury Island in 1955. Then in May 1957, she touched Walker Rock at the entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound while on charter to Anchor Shipping.

In December 1962, she was sold to Holm Shipping and renamed "Holmbank", and was used on the Lyttelton - Onehunga run. But within a year her luck ran out. On 20 September 1963, she was sailing from Timaru to Wellington when she ran aground on rocks in Peraki Bay.

All hands were rescued, but the next day, her back had broken, and on 22 September, she broke in two and sank in seven fathoms.

You can read more about "Holmbank"'s demise, and see more photos like the two shown, here.

This link, and the pictures shown, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand License.

A sight nobody in shipping circles likes to see - a ship with her back broken
Holmbank, September 20, 1964. Image 10 of 14
Photographer: Jan Shuttleworth. Source: Kete Christchurch - refer link above


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