Name Rapaki Yard number 485 Launched 19 November 1925 | Port of registry Auckland Status Operational | |
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Owner Lyttleton Harbour Board Builder Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley, Scotland | ||
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.
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.
References
Rapaki steam crane Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA