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Poranui
 Taken by Geordie Stevens / Tony Conroy, www.shipspotting.com
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Built in Hoogezand for the Northern Steam Ship Company, she primarily traded from Auckland and Tauranga to South Island ports before congestion at Auckland saw her switched to Onehunga.
During her time on the coast, she was primarily employed in carrying frozen food, beer and general supplies from Onehunga to Deep Cove in Doubtful Sound, where the Manapouri power scheme was centred. This was the biggest coastal shipping contract ever let in New Zealand, and involved three other Northern Steam Ship Company vessels.
She was also the first ship to use the Whangarei slipway when that facility opened for drydocking, and the first to utilise the services of the tug "Manukau" at Onehunga when departing for Dunedin on 3 March 1967.
She was sold to New Hebrides interests in October 1969, but a month later was wrecked on Jouan Reef, one hundred miles north of Noumea, on 17 November 1969.
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