By: Laura Mills8th Aug 2022 5:12PMPhoto 1.KIWITEA. Built in 1925, sisterships KARTIGI, KAPONGA (Wrecked here in May 1932. KIWITEA sold in 1952, towed to Hong Kong in 1955, sold to shipbreakers in Feburary 1956. Photo 2. IDA MARION behind is the tug tug KUMEA, dredge MAWHERA, and LADY LUCK. Photo 3. is the KOKIRI loading coal has she did not have a mast fitted aft it was placed behind the funnel, looks like Jack Quinn with the brown jersey ?. Photo 4 MATTHEW FLINDERS, KAITAWA, KONUI. KAIMIRO, there appears to be one missing from this photo. Photo 5. TITOKI, PURIRI. KOKIRI and the South Korean PUSAN, loading Roa coal for Japan May 1961. And just as a point of interest Photo 5, has been hand coloured, the original was B&W as i have the B&W one.

By: Laura Mills8th Aug 2022 5:12PMMATTHEW FLINDERS. Was built to replace the ABEL TASMAN which was wrecked here in July 1936, The first call for the MATTHEW FLINDERS here was on the 3-3-39 to load timber for Australia. She made several voyages between Greymouth and Australia even during the war years, until making her last call in February 1950. Later sold to Finnish owners in 1956 and renamed PIRKKO NURINEN, sold again in 1967 to Italian owners and renamed RAUMA, scrapped in Spain in 1971. UNION POWER. Made one call at Greymouth to load scrap metal arriving here on the 5-11-53 from Napier, launched in 1944 named MESH KNOT, became the UNION POWER in 1948, then owned by China Union Lines Taiwan. In 1966 renamed SEVEN STARS, renamed again TIMBER THREE in 1967, and scrapped at Valencia Spain in 1968. Built in the US the UNION POWER was one of a class of 239 built between 1944 and 1945 known as the C-M-AVI class. The PUSAN, INCHON, and the DAISEI which loaded Roa coal here for Japan in 1960-61 where of the same class, at 338ft 6in in length they still hold the record for the largest ships that work the Port, although the Seatow Barges did surpass them in tonnage loaded, but they were under tow by the tugs