HMNZS Simplon – very little information about her
HMNZS “Simplon” 69 ton 1918 trawler/coaster Returned to Sanfords in 1946,
The fishing trawlers Nora Niven and Simplon were requisitioned by the
Government and equipped as minesweepers. They swept seventeen mines off
Farewell Spit and eighteen in the Three Kings area. Others had probably sunk or
broken adrift. The two little fishing boats of 1918 were the forebears of the Royal
New Zealand Navy’s numerous minesweepers of the Second World War. The Nora
Niven herself survived to take a small part in their activities.
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