TEV Rangatira (1931)
Rangatira sailing at full speed. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Rangatira |
| Owner | Union Company |
| Ordered | 1930 |
| Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Cost | £500,000 (1930) |
| Launched | 16 April 1931 |
| In service | 1931–1965 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1968 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger ferry |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 419 ft (127.71 m) |
| Beam | 58 ft (17.68 m) |
| Draught |
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| Installed power | 13,800 hp (10,300 kW) |
| Propulsion | 6 boilers, turbo-electric, twin screw |
| Speed | in excess of 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) |
| Capacity | 720 first class, 236 second class; later 794; up to 2,300 for day cruises |
| Crew | 112 |
TEV Rangatira was a passenger ferry that sailed the Wellington to Lyttelton route between 1931 and 1963. She was the first turbo-electric vessel (TEV) to arrive in Australia or New Zealand waters. During the Christmas season she would also run trips between Wellington and Picton.