Toroa (ferry)

Toroa, named for the northern royal albatross, is an Albatross-class passenger ferry that served Auckland, New Zealand.

[1] She would begin service that same year in July, primarily travelling between the Devonport and Auckland CBD ferry terminals with her sister ship Makora.

[2] After 55 years of service, she was laid up and was set to be buried in land reclamation work at Westhaven along with ferries Korea, Makora, Takapuna, and The Peregrine,[3] but was saved purchased by the New Zealand Maritime Trust.

A volunteer group, the Toroa Preservation Society, worked towards a restoration.

Toroa was towed to Birkenhead Wharf by the tug William C Daldy but sank in a storm there in 1998.