HMNZS Coastguard – sunk in 2015 but was raised HMNZS Coastguard still exists, as of 2018 she was under refit in Nelson,NZ THE COAST GUARD / KAIKOHE RESTORATION STORY. The Kaikohe has been refloated, salvaged, redecked, rehulled and rebuilt as an office, studio and showroom for Heartland Timber products, demonstrating the versatility, beauty and workabilityContinue reading “What happened to Ex-HMNZS Coastguard (T12) – Read the story below”
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Ex-HMNZS Wakakura a few months before being scrapped – photo taken Jan 1953
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Barge to Innovate New Zealand Coastal Shipping Grounds in Storm
02-Sep-2024 A newly launched service using a self-propelled barge that was promoted as a game changer in New Zealand’s coastal shipping ran into problems just weeks after it launched. The Manahau, a 321-foot (98-meter) barge with a crew of 11 ran aground on the northwest shore of New Zealand’s South Island during a storm around midnightContinue reading “Barge to Innovate New Zealand Coastal Shipping Grounds in Storm”
Exclusive report: On the ground with the New Zealanders in Ukraine
The Spinoff Cover Story Today at 5.00am Exclusive report: On the ground with the New Zealanders in Ukraine Tasha Black Contributor Left: Owen Pomana holds poppies in Kyiv’s Independence Square. Right: Jordan O’Brien with 131st Separate Recon Battalion after the liberation of Kherson. (Photos supplied, additional design by The Spinoff) New Zealanders are a smallContinue reading “Exclusive report: On the ground with the New Zealanders in Ukraine”
Twin patrol cutters purchased from New Zealand at a cost of €26m will finally be commissioned by the Naval Service on (Wednesday, September 4th), nearly 16 months after the pair arrived on a heavy-lift vessel to the naval base at Haulbowline in Cork Harbour.
The two ‘Lake’ class cutters, formerly known as HMNZS Rotoiti and HMNZS Pukaki, were used by the Royal New Zealand Navy for a decade from 2009 to 2019. They will replace the since scrapped Naval Service Coastal Patrol Vessels (CPV) LÉ Orla and LÉ Ciara, which were originally part of the UK’s Royal Navy HongContinue reading “Twin patrol cutters purchased from New Zealand at a cost of €26m will finally be commissioned by the Naval Service on (Wednesday, September 4th), nearly 16 months after the pair arrived on a heavy-lift vessel to the naval base at Haulbowline in Cork Harbour.”
