Kaiapoi Ships

Toa


Toa was built in 1927/28 By George Niccol at Auckland for the Northern Steam Ship Company.

She worked the Bay of Plenty trade until the end of 1960. She was purchased by the Kaiapoi Shipping Company in 1961 and worked the Kaiapoi–Wellington trade until being laid up in 1963.

Toa spent time line fishing off Chatham Islands in 1964. In 1967 she worked with Ranginui in the venison recovery operations in Fiordland. She went fishing at Tonga in the early 1970s , and was laid up at Auckland in 1973. She was auctioned off by the Auckland Harbour Board in 1974 to recover unpaid charges. She was sold to Mahoud Raza of Suva for $6040, renamed Paerimu, and refitted for trading around Pacific Islands. She sank at her moorings in the Bay of Islands, Suva, in 1981.

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