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New Zealand : South Island
Lake Wakatipu
Antrim (1868-1905 in service : 1920)
Built by JW Robertson & Co at Greenstone
82 ft wooden hull : 57 GT
Engine by Kincaid & McQueen of Dunedin
Laid up in 1905 and dismantled in 1930
Engine saved and used to power the steam slipway on the lake which is currently used by the lake steamer Earnslaw
Above : Mountaineer at Elfin Bay. Photo by AP Godber courtesy of the Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library
Mountaineer (1879-1932 in service : 1941)
Built by Kincaid & McQueen of Dunedin and assembled at Lake Wakatipu
130 ft steel hull
Engine : Compound diagonal 18 and 36 in x 42 in
Built for the Wakatip Steam Shipping Co
Purchased by the state Railways Department in 1903
Withdrawn in 1932
Used as a houseboat
Scrapped in 1941
Other areas
Avon (1859-1862)
Built by Barclay, Curle & Co at Glasgow
58.2 ft : 42 GRT
Built for the Canterbury Local Steam Navigation Co, Lyttleton
Sold to New Zealand governement
Reengined in 1872 with screw propulsion
Bruce
Koputai
Colleen
Mana
Prince Albert (1860-1862)
Built in 1852 by Smith & Rodger at Govan
132.9 ft : 230 GT
Steeple engine
Sailed for various owners at Melbourne, Australia
Bought by Frederick Greer of Dunedin but returned to previous owners following insolvency
Re-sold for use at Hong Kong
Sampson
Geelong
City of Dunedin : Lost soon after leaving Wellington in May 1865. Some wreckage washed up the following day and all hands lost
Charles Edward
Wallace
HARBOUR
TUG, Lyttlton harbour : Lyttleton - until 1907.
Moved to Devonport, Auckland, North Island and used as a ferry
HARBOUR TUG, Dunedin harbour : Koputai
(1876-1917, re-registered at Sydney, Australia). Built by Thomas
Wingate & Co of Glasgow, UK. 112.2 ft : 158 GT. Compound
diagonal
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