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Ronaki
 Sourced from Marine Photos, Wharton Collection, NZ Maritime Museum
(19329 (Photo 133))
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Built by G.T. Niccol as a three-masted schooner for Wilson Portland Cement, she was acquired by the Northern Steamship Company in 1929 and was the most frequent visitor to Onehunga every year from 1931 to 1940.
She traded from Onehunga to Raglan, Kawhia, New Plymouth and Hokianga, before being taken over by the NZ Government in 1943 for use as a storeship by the US Army.
She had her fair share of mechanical problems in the vicinity of the harbour over the years, breaking a shaft off the Heads on 3 March 1932, losing a propeller in the harbour on 5 February 1934, and twice suffering machinery damage en route from Wanganui to Onehunga on 29 October 1939 and 20 April 1941.
She was driven ashore and wrecked at Norfolk Island on 17 June 1943.
 Sourced from Ships of NZ Facebook page
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