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Spirit Of Vision
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Built in Rendsburg, she is powered by two 1496hp Maschinenbau diesels, producing a service speed of 12.5 knots.
An ice strengthened roll-on roll-off vessel, she has a stern door and can carry 30 trailers and 278 TEU. She has two 35 tonne cranes, and her controllable pitch propellers greatly aided berthing and rendered her a treat to sail - her principle Masters, Captains Robert Kerr and Ken Marshall, will forever vouch for that!
Pacifica Shipping purchased her for $8.1m in 1995, then opted to sell her and charter her back in 1998, around the time they sold her sister ship, "Spirit Of Progress".
"Spirit Of Vision" was unleashed on the Onehunga - Nelson - Wellington - Nelson - Wellington - Onehunga run initially, then swapped routes with "Spirit Of Progress" in April 1996, taking over the Onehunga - Nelson - Lyttelton run. The reason for the change was that the "SOV"'s cranes had a greater capacity to handle the heavier containers prevalent on the Onehunga to Lyttelton run.
When the capital got the chop from Pacifica's schedule at the end of June, Onehunga - Lyttelton - Nelson - Onehunga became the way of "Spirit Of Vision"'s life for the next seven years, bar the odd mishap, most notably running aground in French Pass, en route from Nelson to Lyttelton on 30 April 1998.
She was found to have suffered damage to her bottom plating and rudders, while the starboard shaft was bent and her starboard propeller blades were badly damaged, while one of them was missing completely!
This entailed repairs being undertaken in Auckland, a process which took seven weeks. Eventually she was able to resume her usual service, and on 22 June she sailed "round the top" from Auckland to Onehunga to do so.
 On Waitangi Day 2001, "SOV" set off south for Nelson and Lyttelton - a typical departure is depicted above - but on this occasion had an extra stop to make - a cargo of heavy equipment, used in the construction of the Mokau Bridge, required loading at New Plymouth.
When her charter ended in mid-2003, Pacifica opted not to renew it, and she was returned to her Korean owners - the handover took place at Onehunga, and when she sailed for Lyttelton on 7 June, she bore Busan as her port of registration.
Her Korean owners subsequently sold her to Comoros interests. She frequently trekked between Karachi and Mumbai under their ownership, before being scrapped at Alang in February 2014, with demolition commencing on 7 March.
Information partly sourced from "Spirit Of The Coast - The Story of Pacifica Shipping", by Nick Tolerton
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