Sunday 29 May 2022

EX RNZN - Arataki on the slip in Dunedin about to be broken up - probably broken up by now,

 






Launched 40 % complete as YTL 627 for USN in 1945.
1947 towed to Naval Dockyard at Auckland and completed 10/1948 for use as a tug.

Later sold privately, then spent many years laid up at Bluff and Dunedin and eventually brokken up during 2012.

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