Rapaki steam crane
Rapaki in Auckland Harbour | |
History | |
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Name: | Rapaki |
Owner: | Lyttleton Harbour Board |
Port of registry: | Auckland |
Builder: | Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley, Scotland[1] |
Yard number: | 485[1] |
Launched: | 19 November 1925[1] |
Identification: |
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Status: | Operational |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage: | 762 GRT[1] |
Length: | 160.4 ft (48.9 m)[1] |
Beam: | 52.3 ft (15.9 m)[1] |
Installed power: | steam engines |
Propulsion: | twin screw[1] |
Speed: | about |
The Rapaki steam crane is an historic boat in New Zealand.
On 24 December 1925 the Lyttelton Harbour Board ordered an 80-ton self-propelled floating crane, called Rapaki. It was named after the settlement close to Lyttelton of the same name. She was built at a cost of £42,000.
The Rapaki can be visited at the Auckland Waterfront.[2]
It is one of two steam cranes still in New Zealand waters, the other being the Hikitia which can be visited on the Wellington waterfront.
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