SeapixOnline- Charterboats - 1 of 1 SHAMROCK (1915) - Seen here making for the start line of the 168th Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta tug race.
Built in 1915 for Arch McCarthy for the Waitakaruru to Thames run.
When the Kopu bridge was built she was sold to Faulkner Ferries in 1925 where she worked as a ferry and tug towing barges from Motiti Island and Mayor Island.
She was sold in 1980 and worked at Kawau Island towing log rafts and running a ferry service for the locals.
Following this she went to Leigh as a charted fishing boat and in 2000 to the Kaipara Harbour doing fishing charters in the harbour and over the Bar.
From 2006 she was used as a pleasure boat until her untimely loss in 2017 when she hit rocks in Tutukaka Harbour.
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