Ranginui
The Ranginui was built by Scott & Sons, Bowling Glasgow, Scotland in 1936 for G T Niccol. She was sold on to the Northern Steam Ship Company in 1937 and worked the Whangarei-Auckland-Tauranga run. In 1957 she was sold to the Collingwood Shipping Company and placed on the Wellington–Lyttelton run. She was placed on the Kaiapoi-Wellington run with Paroto in 1958.
Ranginui was sold to Luggate Game Packers in November 1967 and converted for use as a helicopter base for venison recovery work in Fiordland. She was laid up at Port Chalmers in 1968 and later returned to Kaiapoi.
In August 1972 she was sold to Carribbean Pacific Enterprise, where she was to have been converted into a small frigate but the ship never left Kaiapoi. She was purchased by Alpine Helicopters in 1976 and returned to Fiordland. She underwent a refit at Bluff in 1986 and was used as recreational accommodation by Sir Tim Wallace and family.
Ranginui sank in Breaksea Sound while unattended on 8 May 1995.