Built as a cargo vessel VEB-Werft Neptun at Rostock for Barthold Richters at Hamburg, Germany.
18 July 1959 launched under the name WILRI.
She was ordered for Russian account but before launching sold to German owners.
Tonnage 1.144 gross, 537 net, 2.227 dwt., dim. 84.6 x 12.0m., draught 14.8ft. Length between pp. 75.9m.
Powered by one Deutz diesel engine 1.650 bhp., speed 12½ knots.
Accommodation for 4 passengers.
1959 Delivered to owners.
1963 Sold to the Tonga Copra Board, (managed by the Tonga Shipping Agency) renamed NIUVAKAI.
1976 Sold to Dolphin Shipping Ltd., Tonga, not renamed.
1982 Sold to Longline Shipping Co. S.A., Panama, renamed BLUE CRYSTAL.
1985 Broken up at Kaohsiung.
Tonga 1972 9s/90s sg398/402, scott C107/11and 1972 7s on 9s sg 428
Sources: Register of Merchant Ships Completed in 1959. Merchant Ships Vol. VIII 1960.