Vuniwai

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Fiji issued an interesting ship stamp for its 9d World Health Organisation 20th. Anniversary set. It shows a hospital patient being transferred to the twin-screw motor launch Vuniwai. The vessel, owned by the Government of Fiji (Marine Department) and registered at Suva, was built by the Island's Public Works Department, Suva, in 1965, She has a gross tonnage of 113 and a net of 59 tons. Length overall is 74.9 ft., beam 18 ft. 4 ins., and she has twin 6-cylinder Gardner oil engines.
SG389 Sea Breezes 4/69

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1970 Renamed in DAUNIVOSA.
She was bought by the Lomaiviti council for US$ 27,000 and renamed ADI LOMAI.
23 October 2004 under the name ADI LOMAI she sank alongside the Narain Jetty, Fiji.
2008 She was still there in the same position and the Lomaiviti people still were paying off their dept for the sunken vessel.
IMO No 6510988.
2014 Can not find anything more on her.
2017 A local newspaper gives that the wreck will be removed.