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Turihaua
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Built in Bergen, she was powered by two six-cylinder BMV diesel engines.
She was acquired by the Gisborne Sheepfarmers Frozen Meat & Mercantile Company in 1952 and operated on the New Zealand coast as "Turihaua" for both that operation and Napier-based Richardson & Co, to whom she was sold in September 1955.
She had plenty of close calls during her days. In December 1952, she struck a submerged rock off Tuahine Point and was holed and towed to Auckland, where repair work took five months.
She ran aground on a shoal in Tokomaru Bay in 1953, and was damaged at Auckland's Kings Wharf a year later, before being stranded on Great Mercury Island in 1955. Then in May 1957, she touched Walker Rock at the entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound while on charter to Anchor Shipping.
In December 1962, she was sold to Holm Shipping and renamed "Holmbank", and was used on the Lyttelton - Onehunga run, making the round trip every ten days. But within a year her luck ran out. On 20 September 1963, she was sailing from Timaru to Wellington when she ran aground on rocks in Peraki Bay.
All hands were rescued, but the next day, her back had broken, and on 22 September, she broke in two and sank in seven fathoms. See also "Holmbank".
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