Picton

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The Picton was built in 1917 by T Brown and Sons, Te Kopuru, as Koau for Richardson & Company.

She was sold to the Southern Cross Shipping Company in 1952 and renamed Picton. She worked the Nelson Bays-Wellington-Lyttelton run. She entered Kaiapoi–Wellington service in 1959, and set a record by being at Kaiapoi three times in one week. She spent six days aground at the Waimakariri entrance in May 1961.

The Picton was sold in 1964 to the Picton Fishing Company for line and crayfishing at the Chatham Islands. Picton was wrecked at Raoul Island on 20 July 1978 while under charter to the Ministry of Transport.