Scow (powered barge) “Jane Gifford” at Auckland, New Zealand, April 1974
Owner: B. Subritzky, Auckland
Builoder: D. Darroch, Omaha or Whangateau (sources differ, but they are adjacent small towns in the Rodney District of the Auckland Region)
Gross tons: 35.55
Length overall: 20.5 m
Max. draft: 1.24 m
Engines: 2 diesels, total 12 b.h.p.; twin screw
Completed 1908 as a sailing ketch
Engines installed 1921
Owned for many years by R.E. Collins; sold in the 1930s to R. & C. Kasper; spent the last years as a trading vessel by Subritzky
Sold to the Waiuku Museum Trust in 1980, to be rebuilt & converted back to sail, which was completed in 1992 & sailed until around 1999 when she failed her survey
Sold to the Jane Gifford Trust 2001 to be restored buy sufficient funds were unable to be raised
Sold to the Jane Gifford Restoration Trust 2005, restored & relaunched 2009.
Now runs public & private excursions (still doing so in July 2021)
For full details of the restoration process see From http://www.janegifford.org.nz: