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KAITI

Post by shipstamps » Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:05 pm


Built as a steel hulled stern-trawler by A & G Price Ltd., Auckland for the J Wattie Canneries.
14 December 1966 launched under the name KAITI.
Tonnage 75grt, with a length of 70ft.
Powered by a Ruston-Paxman diesel engine, 340 bhp.
Based at Gisborn, New Zealand.

Mostly she was operating between Mahai Peninsula and Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty.
At that time the company had seven fishing vessels, which were used in trawling of purse-seining.
2008 Her whereabouts not known by my.

SG870

Source: New Zealand Marine News 1967 page 124


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