TSS Wahine

She spent most of her career on inter-island ferry route between Wellington and Lyttelton, New Zealand.

[1] William Denny and Brothers built Wahine in Dumbarton as yard number 971.

In January 1942 she was evacuating mostly women and children from Fiji to Auckland when a Japanese submarine tracked her.

[3] On 19 December 1942 Wahine rammed and sank the minesweeping trawler South Sea inside Wellington Harbour.

At 5:40 a.m. on 15 August she ran hard aground on the Masela Island Reef off Cape Palsu in the Arafura Sea, being held as far aft as her engine room.

In response to her distress call, Standard Vacuum Oil Company tanker Stanvac Karachi rescued all aboard.