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{{use dmy dates|date=October 2010}}}} Toroa{{Infobox ship image Ship image = | Ship caption =
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship namesake = Northern royal albatross | Ship owner = *Devonport Steam Ferry Company Limited- New Zealand Maritime Trust
| Ship operator = | Ship registry = | Ship route = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = George Niccol | Ship original cost = | Ship yard number = | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = 28 April 1925 | Ship completed = | Ship christened = | Ship acquired = | Ship maiden voyage = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = 8 August 1980 | Ship identification = | Ship fate = | Ship status = | Ship notes =
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = | Ship type = | 309}} | Ship displacement = | 130.75|ft|abbr=on}} | 31.4|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship height = | Ship draught = | 9.9|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship depth = | Ship decks = | Ship deck clearance = | Ship ramps = | Ship ice class = | Ship sail plan = | 51|hp}} | Ship propulsion = | 11.5|kn}} | Ship capacity = *1221 passengers river limits- 682 passengers extended river limits
| Ship crew = 4 | Ship notes =
}} |
Toroa, named for the northern royal albatross, is an Albatross-class passenger ferry that served Auckland, New Zealand, primarily travelling between the Devonport and Auckland CBD ferry terminals. Together with her sister ship Makora, she ferried about 20,000 passengers a day, until taken out of service in 1980.[1]The ferry was purchased by the New Zealand Maritime Trust. A volunteer group, the Toroa Preservation Society, worked towards a restoration. However, the well-restored vessel sank in 1998 at Birkenhead Wharf in a storm. Recovered, the ferry now{{when|date=July 2013}} sits on land in Henderson, where restoration work is continuing slowly but regularly.[1] Other Albatross-class ferries include - Albatross
- Kestrel[2]
- The Peregrine
- Ngoiro
- Makora
References 1. ^1 {{cite news |title=Observatory director behind Toroa Preservation Society |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/transport/news/article.cfm?c_id=97&objectid=10654645 |accessdate=9 July 2010 |date=26 June 2010 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |first=Phoebe |last=Falconer}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/84992216/Kestrel-ferry-to-be-restored-after-near-death-experience|accessdate=3 October 2017|title=Kestrel ferry to be restored after "near-death experience"|date=5 October 2016|publisher=Stuff.co.nz}}
External links - {{cite web |url=http://www.toroa.org.nz/ |title=Toroa Preservation Society}}
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