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Pukeko
 Taken by Chris Howell, www.shipspotting.com
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Built in Glasgow, she is powered by one 1360hp British Polar diesel.
Owned by Richardson and Co. of Napier, who were the oldest shipping firm on the NZ coast (founded 1859), she was taken over by Holm Shipping in October 1969, with Union Shipping taking over management of "Pukeko" in 1972.
 A cargo of brightly coloured fibreglass runabouts, complete with trailers, bound for the Auckland market from Nelson on board "Pukeko", for discharge at Onehunga.
Sourced from USSCO's "Under Way" magazine
Her final year in New Zealand waters was spent under the management of Anchor Shipping, replacing "Puriri" on the Nelson - Onehunga run, before her sale to Hong Kong interests in August 1975. She subsequently traded for Kuwaiti and Egyptian clients.
But in July 1977, while lying off the port of Jeddah in the Red Sea, she suffered an engine room fire and was extensively damaged. She was towed to Piraeus via the Suez Canal in August for repairs.
 Unbelievably, she again caught fire off Mokha, Yemen, on 17 October 1988, this tim sinking three days later, west-north-west of Zubair Island in the Red Sea.
Below, a gorgeous shot of Pukeko on manoeuvres in Wellington, sourced from the USSCo NZ Facebook page
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