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Te Hongi
Vessel Name:Te Hongi
Builder:John Stewart Banner
Place built:Hokianga
Year built:1934
Construction:Double-skin NZ Kauri
LOA:43
Beam:9,6
Owners:Jack (or Jaques) Markwalder (1948); Bert Lamb H. F. Lamb (Wellington, 19??-1946); Shelley Atkinson (Auckland, 1935-19??)
Notes:6' draught.Atkinson commissioned John Wray to deliver the vessel to Auckland. See "South Sea Vagabonds". re-built in Auckland by Sam Ford. Lamb changed the vessel's name to "Te Hongi". Markwalder purchased her for Pacific cruise.