By: William Gray20th Aug 2023 1:55PMM.V. TOTARA. Some details, Built 1957 by Smit and Zoon Westerbroek Holland, for Anchor shipping and Foundry Co Nelson, after launching and completion the TOTARA loaded a cargo of sodium sulphate at Rotterdam, and after collecting stores at Dover left on the 8th of April for Auckland, arriving there on the 25th of May. She spent the next 23 years trading around the NZ Coast mainly working the Ports on the West Coast of NZ, Greymouth, Westport, Wanganui, New Plymouth, Raglan, and Onehunga, In 1979 she was sold to Overseas owners an renamed PACIFIC BOLD, and under that name did make some trips back to NZ. After being sold again, she went through a few more names, 1987 renamed ANTARES, then in 1990 renamed SYGNUS, Then here finally in 1991 she was renamed RIVIHELI. Her end came in April 2000 when she sold to Shipbreakers in India,