GMV Aramoana
GMV Aramoana in 1976
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| Name: | Aramoana |
| Namesake: | Māori: Sea Pathway |
| Builder: | William Denny & Brothers Ltd, Dumbarton |
| Cost: | $NZ 4 million |
| Yard number: | 1502 |
| Launched: | 24 November 1961 |
| Completed: | 1961 |
| In service: | 13 August 1962 |
| Fate: | Laid up 1983, sold 1984 |
| Status: | Scrapped at Alang in 1994 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 4,160 GT |
| Length: | 112.2 m (368 ft) |
| Beam: | 18.6 m (61 ft) |
| Draught: | 4.73 m (15.5 ft) |
| Installed power: | 6 × English Electric 16-cylinder 4-stroke turbocharged 16 CSVM diesel 10" x 21" design 900rpm, service 700rpm |
| Propulsion: | 4 * Electric drive motors, 2 per shaft |
| Speed: | 19 knots (22 mph) |
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| Crew: | 90 |
GMV Aramoana ("Sea Pathway" in the Māori language) was a roll-on roll-off train ferry operating across Cook Strait between 1962 and 1983.
Government Motor Vessel (GMV) Aramoana was built in 1961 for the New Zealand Railways Department to link the North and South Island rail networks. She was the last vessel built by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, on the River Clyde. In 1965, she was joined by the similar, but slightly larger, Aranui.
On 10 April 1968 Aramoana was the largest of the rescue vessels when TEV Wahine, a New Zealand inter-island ferry of the Union Company, foundered after striking Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.Aramoana's two motor lifeboats were lost in the very heavy seas.
In 1978 Aramoana was rebuilt at Singapore to carry 800 passengers to meet the increased traffic, following the withdrawal in 1976 of the Union Company's Wellington to Lyttelton service.
In 1983, both Aramoana and Aranui were replaced by the significantly larger MV Arahura and were sold to the Najd Trading & Construction Company of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1984. Aramoana was renamed Captain Nicolas V, and renamed Najd II the following year.
Aramoana was laid up at the United Arab Emirates port of Ajman in 1993. In 1994 she left Ajman towed by a tug and was broken up on Alang beach on the western shore of the Gulf of Khambhat in Gujarat state, India.
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