She is also the sister ship to the Rapaki, formerly of the Port of Lyttelton, which was put on display at the New Zealand Maritime Museum after being taken out of service, and then scrapped in January 2019.

The vessel travelled with the crane fully erected, and arrived in Wellington Harbour on 21 December 1926.

[2] Twin screws are driven by surface-condensing direct-drive compound engines which were supplied with steam by a coal-fired Scotch boiler with two furnaces.

In 1980 this was also removed and the present two locally made small modern package boilers were installed.

[6] While in Lyttelton, she moved an ice plant between wharves to repay part of her refurbishment at the port's dry dock.