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Titoki
 Taken by D. Wright. Sourced from Ships Nostalgia
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Built by William Hamilton & Co in Glasgow at a cost of $73,000, she was christened by Mrs T. Brown, wife of Anchor's former Superintendent Engineer turned director, Thomas Brown, in late 1921, and set sail for New Zealand on her delivery voyage in February 1922, under Captain McArthur's command.
It was quite an eventful voyage, with one of the firemen disappearing overboard just three days into the trek south. Then on a stopover at Cristobal, two members of the crew were taken ill, and were still in hospital when the voyage resumed.
Thankfully there was no further drama as she made her way through the Panama Canal, eventually arriving in Nelson on 28 April before going on to serve Anchor well for some thirty-five years.
In 1957, after arriving in Nelson from Onehunga, she was laid up on the mudflats and her name was changed to "Murray", as the owners wanted to use her original name for a new building which appeared on the scene a year later.
As "Murray", she was sold to Lanena Shipping Company in Hong Kong in 1958, and was towed by the tug "Cabrilla" to her new home, where she was converted into a lighter. Her fate is unknown.
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