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Tainui
 Sourced from the NZ Coastal Shipping Forum - photographer unknown
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Built in Kalmar, she was powered by two 510hp Nydqvist & Holm diesel engines, which produced a service speed of 10 knots.
Ice strengthened, she was acquired by the Northern Steam Ship Company in 1949, and called at Onehunga, Picton, Lyttelton, Timaru and Dunedin, with calls at Oamaru - to load lime for Tauranga, New Plymouth and Raglan as required.
An unusual feature of the ship was that she wasn't steered by the standard ship's wheel, but instead by a tiller!
"Tainui" holds the record for spending the most days alongside at Onehunga - a staggering 80 days!! She berthed on March 8, but didn't sail until May 26 ... 1951, the year of the waterfront confrontation which affected shipping throughout the country from February to mid-July.
She was sold to Singaporean interests in 1965, and after a further change of hands eight years later, her most recent Singapore owners sold her to a Thai operation in 1978. Although it's unconfirmed, it's likely she was broken up in Thailand within the next two years.
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Sourced from Ships of NZ Facebook page