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DEV Arahura
DEV Arahura was a roll-on/roll-off train ferry that operated on the Interislander service between Wellington and Picton in New Zealand from 1983 until 2015.
Arahura was built for the New Zealand Railways Corporation by Aalborg Vaerft, Denmark to cross Cook Strait, replacing the ageing Aramoana and Aranui. She was designed to operate at a faster service speed than the previous ferries on the route, while reducing waves that would affect nearby beaches. This reduced the crossing time by 20 minutes. It entered service on 21 December 1983.
This was the second inter-island ferry to bear the name Arahura (a Māori word meaning "Pathway to Dawn"). The earlier vessel was a twin-screw steamship built in Scotland for the Union Steamship Company in 1905. That ship served until the early 1950s and was sunk by the Royal New Zealand Air Force as target practice.
In 2008, Arahura underwent a $NZ9 million refit to better accommodate larger trucks and campervans. This included reducing some of the upper decks lowering her passenger capacity to 550 and installing a new cinema and cafeteria, greatly improving and modernising her passenger areas.
In 2014, she made her 50,000th Cook Strait crossing.
In December 2014, KiwiRail announced that Arahura would be retired in 2015 after 32 years in service. Kaiarahi was chartered to replace her on the route. Arahura's last scheduled passenger voyages were on 29 July 2015, operating the 14:45 sailing to Picton and the 18:45 sailing to Wellington. The last freight journey took place over the following night.[citation needed] She had completed more than 52,000 crossings and 13 million km with over four million passengers carried. And is remembered as a key workhorse of the Cook Strait.
On 3 October 2015, renamed Ahura and with her Interislander livery painted out, she departed Wellington, bound for the Alang scrapyard in India, being beached there on 3 November. Scrapping was completed in late January 2016.
In 1986, Arahura helped rescue passengers from the sinking Soviet cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov, providing lifeboats and extra assistance.
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DEV Arahura
DEV Arahura was a roll-on/roll-off train ferry that operated on the Interislander service between Wellington and Picton in New Zealand from 1983 until 2015.
Arahura was built for the New Zealand Railways Corporation by Aalborg Vaerft, Denmark to cross Cook Strait, replacing the ageing Aramoana and Aranui. She was designed to operate at a faster service speed than the previous ferries on the route, while reducing waves that would affect nearby beaches. This reduced the crossing time by 20 minutes. It entered service on 21 December 1983.
This was the second inter-island ferry to bear the name Arahura (a Māori word meaning "Pathway to Dawn"). The earlier vessel was a twin-screw steamship built in Scotland for the Union Steamship Company in 1905. That ship served until the early 1950s and was sunk by the Royal New Zealand Air Force as target practice.
In 2008, Arahura underwent a $NZ9 million refit to better accommodate larger trucks and campervans. This included reducing some of the upper decks lowering her passenger capacity to 550 and installing a new cinema and cafeteria, greatly improving and modernising her passenger areas.
In 2014, she made her 50,000th Cook Strait crossing.
In December 2014, KiwiRail announced that Arahura would be retired in 2015 after 32 years in service. Kaiarahi was chartered to replace her on the route. Arahura's last scheduled passenger voyages were on 29 July 2015, operating the 14:45 sailing to Picton and the 18:45 sailing to Wellington. The last freight journey took place over the following night.[citation needed] She had completed more than 52,000 crossings and 13 million km with over four million passengers carried. And is remembered as a key workhorse of the Cook Strait.
On 3 October 2015, renamed Ahura and with her Interislander livery painted out, she departed Wellington, bound for the Alang scrapyard in India, being beached there on 3 November. Scrapping was completed in late January 2016.
In 1986, Arahura helped rescue passengers from the sinking Soviet cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov, providing lifeboats and extra assistance.