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  HMNZS Endeavour visits Wellington HMNZS Endeavour refuels HMNZS Te Kaha and ROKS Choi Young. HMNZS Endeavour 3  (A11) was a fleet oiler for the Royal New Zealand Navy. She was named after James Cook’s Bark Endeavour and the third ship in the RNZN to carry that name, though if continuity with the Royal NavyContinue reading “HMNZS Endeavour 3 (A11)”

HMNZS Endeavour was a Royal New Zealand Navy Antarctic support vessel. She was the first of three ships in the Royal New Zealand Navy to bear that name. The ship was built in the United States in 1944 as Satinwood (YN-89) as a net tender of the Ailanthus class (but later redesignated as AN-76, aContinue reading “HMNZS Endeavour 1”

Flying her paying off pennant after many years service in the Hydrographic branch HMNZS Tarapunga and Takapu SML’s parked up alongside HMNZS Monowai HMNZS Tarapunga as Q1187 Being unloaded from SS Kootenay Park after arriving at Wellington on 30 April 1943 Both Q1187 (Tarapunga) & Q1188 (Takapu) shipped as deck cargo from Vancouver aboard SSContinue reading “HMNZS Tarapunga (Photos on Blog -https://rnznships.blogspot.com/ )”

  HMNZS Takapu HMNZS Tarapunga and Takapu SML’s parked up alongside Mothership Monowai HMNZS Takapu – taken during Queens Visit, Waitangi Day 1963 HMNZS Kahawai, ex HMNZS Takapu looking forlorn – Philomel in the background – Oct 30, 1982 HMNZS Tarapunga and Takapu among  quite a few MLs including the White Boats Takapau and TarapungaContinue reading “HMNZS Takapu (Q1188/P3556) (all photos on blog https://rnznships.blogspot.com/ )”

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