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Ngamaru III
 Photo supplied by Lindsay Butterfield
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Built in Adelaide by Adelaide Ship Construction, she is powered by two 1350hp English Electric 8RK diesel engines, producing a service speed of 12 knots.
She has one 35 tonne crane, and can carry 61 TEU, including 24 reefers, plus 1950 cubic metres of breakbulk space. Her deep tanks are capable of holding 440 tons of cargo oils.
 Photo supplied by Lindsay Butterfield
She was purpose-built to sit hard aground on the bottom at low tide in the harbours of Northern Territory and Papua New Guinea
She previously visited Onehunga as "Niugini Kula", and her next visit, within the same month, was as "Ngamaru III", as she commenced a service to Tonga, Niue Island and the Cook Islands for the Cook Islands National Line, which also included calls at Chatham and Pitt Islands, as well as Napier.
 Photo supplied by Lindsay Butterfield
In December 1990 she was withdrawn from service to allow repairs to be carried out, and when she arrived in Auckland from Nuku'alofa on 13 March 2001, she was arrested due to the financial problems of Cook Islands National Line, which was partly owned by the Cook Islands Government and Triad Ltd, with some minority New Zealand-based shareholders as well.
She was sold to BB Shipping and renamed "Black Bart", but her servicing of the Napier - Chatham Islands run continued. She was arrested again in June 2002, and auctioned four months later.
The bidding only reached $360,000, and the vessel was passed in, but the High Court accepted Reef Shipping's offer for that amount, and her new owners renamed her "Southern Motu".
 taken by Stephen Chester, www.shipspotting.com
Picture shows ship as "Itac Express"
After visiting the Chatham Islands on over 170 occasions, she was sold to Colombian interests in May 2004, and broken up at Alang in May 2006.
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Photo supplied hy Lindsay Butterfield