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The biggest and the best – but obsolescent. By the time the second Rangatira entered service on the Lyttelton–Wellington route in 1972, overnight voyaging no longer appealed to many people. The ship served for just four years, the last two of them courtesy of a government subsidy.
Credit
Alexander Turnbull Library,
Reference: Eph-A-Ship-1972-01-front
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New
Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa must be obtained before any
reuse of this image.
