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Moanui
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Built in Ardrossan for James Fisher & Sons of Barrow-in-Furness, she was powered by one six-cylinder British Polar diesel engine.
"Bay Fisher" was on a long-term charter to Atlantic Steam Navigation Co Ltd for the first nine years of her life, before the Northern Steam Ship Company chartered her in 1967 to use on the grain trade between Bluff, Timaru, Lyttelton and Auckland / Onehunga.
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Three years later, they acquired her outright and renamed her "Moanui", under which name she visited Onehunga on numerous occasions in the early 1970s until she was laid up for sale in late 1974. She was the last Northern Steam Ship Company vessel to visit Onehunga, ending 94 years of activity.
In July 1975, she was sold to Singaporean interests, and spent nine years operating out of that country before flying the Panamanian flag for the last two years of her life.
She had been lying in the Madras Roads under arrest for some time when she left under tow on 2 May 1986, bound for Singapore, bunkering at Galle, Sri Lanka, eight days later.
On 11 May 1986, she dragged her anchor, broke in two and was wrecked at Gavet Point, Galle, after parting from her tow en route from Madras to Singapore. It wasn't until February 1989 that the wreck was broken up.
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