Arahura
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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.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 28 inbound references to Arahura, and connects out to Denmark, New Zealand and Wellington.
Vinony files it under 1983 ships, Cook Strait ferries and IMO numbers.
Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- train ferry
- Operator
- Interislander
- Image
- Arahura 2004Livery.jpg
- Length
- 148.37
- Speed
- 19
- Significant event
- ship breaking
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- Commons category
- IMO 8201454
- draft
- 5.5
- call sign
- ZMBS
- gross tonnage
- 12735
- yard number
- 245
- beam
- 20.5
- shipping port
- Wellington
- maximum capacity
- 535
- service entry
- 1983-00-00
- country of registry
- New Zealand
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Incidents
- Livery
- Propulsion
- Deck layout
- References
- External links
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.
==History== alt=|left|thumb|Arahura - Maiden Voyage (1983) Arahura was built for the New Zealand Railways Corporation by Aalborg Vaerft, Denmark to cross Cook Strait, replacing the ageing and . 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arahura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.