Shamrock Leaf, 1915- (Ferry)

Also known as "Shamrock".

A wooden passenger ferry built by Bailey & Lowe, launched in 1915 for Arch McCarthy’s Waitakaruru–Thames ferry service. 44 feet long, with a 9 ft 6 in beam, powered by a Stirling engine, and able to seat passengers for the Waitakaruru–Thames run.

She later entered the Faulkner ferry fleet at Tauranga, where she worked as a harbour ferry and tug. Part of the long-running Tauranga–Mount Maunganui ferry service before the harbour bridge altered cross-harbour transport patterns. Later histories record that she continued working elsewhere around the Hauraki Gulf and Northland before returning to Auckland in the early twenty-first century.