Year
1912
Description
Built in Auckland in 1884 ‘Awhina’ was a wooden-hulled 135 ton compound 2 cylinder steam engine tug, coming to Albany in 1912 under her own steam from New Zealand. She spent the remainder of her working life in the harbour as a tug, towing vessels in and out of port, towing hulks out to sea to be sunk, towing floats for gunnery target practice, and supplying the Eclipse Island lighthouse.
On 19 April 1936, she was towed out of the harbour and burnt off Gull Rock at Ledge Bay.
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