Rangatira collectable playing cards. In excellent condition considering age.

The TEV Rangatira was a roll-on/roll-off vehicle and passenger ferry launched in 1971 for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.[1] She is significant for having been the World's last surviving passenger ship with steam-powered turbo-electric transmission.[1] (Modern turbo-electric ships, including RMS Queen Mary 2 and Millennium-class cruise ships such as Celebrity Millennium, have gas turbines.)

Rangatira had a varied existence, including serving as an accommodation ship and barracks ship between 1977 and 1983. The Union Company sold her in 1986 and she returned to being a ferry. From 1986 onwards, she passed through a succession of owners who renamed her three times and registered her under three different flags of convenience: as Queen M in 1986,[1][2] Carlo R in 1990[1][2] and Alexander the Great in 2001.[3][2]

After a failed attempt to convert the vessel into a cruise ship[2] she was scrapped in 2005.[1]