Rapaki steam crane
 Rapaki in Auckland Harbour | |
| History | |
|---|---|
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| Name: | Rapaki |
| Owner: | Lyttleton Harbour Board |
| Port of registry: | Auckland |
| Builder: | Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley, Scotland[1] |
| Yard number: | 485[1] |
| Launched: | 19 November 1925[1] |
| Status: | Operational |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 762 GRT[1] |
| Length: | 160.4 ft (48.9 m)[1] |
| Beam: | 52.3 ft (15.9 m)[1] |
| Installed power: | steam engines |
| Propulsion: | twin screw[1] |
| Speed: | about |
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.[2]
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.
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