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Naval – New Zealand is seeking industry info to build Antarctic patrol vessel

The Royal New Zealand Navy currently has two regular OPVs in service (as pictured here), but the third will be ice-strengthened.  By: Nick Lee-Frampton    11 hours ago 5   Mountain peaks are seen from NASA’s Operation IceBridge research aircraft in the Antarctic Peninsula region on Nov. 4, 2017, above Antarctica. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) WELLINGTON, New Zealand —Continue reading “Naval – New Zealand is seeking industry info to build Antarctic patrol vessel”

HMNZS Phyllis – In 1942 Phyllis was one of four vessels purchased by the Navy for use as a dan layer. Dan layers were used by the Navy for marking channels cleared by the minesweepers with buoys. Phyllis was given the Pennant No. T22, and operated out of Auckland until 1942.483

  Unverified photo of HMNZS Phyllis Bow of Phyllis (T22) seen just astern of the Fairmiles The steel hulled single-screw steam trawler Phyllis was built at the Framnaes Mechanical Workshops, Sandefjord, Norway and assembled at the Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Co, Washington, USA in 1912. The vessel was constructed as Star III for theContinue reading “HMNZS Phyllis – In 1942 Phyllis was one of four vessels purchased by the Navy for use as a dan layer. Dan layers were used by the Navy for marking channels cleared by the minesweepers with buoys. Phyllis was given the Pennant No. T22, and operated out of Auckland until 1942.483”

HMS Puriri (T02) (New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy,) was a coastal cargo boat which was requisitioned by the Navy and converted into a minesweeper. She was sunk by a German mine 25 days after she was commissioned.

  HMS Puriri Memorial Ocean Beach, Whangarei Heads, New Zealand Boat sent from Gale to pick up crew The Gale which was a mile and a half or more ahead of us came back and lowered a boat and picked us up.  One of the Cruisers (Achilles)was returning to base and she sent over aContinue reading “HMS Puriri (T02) (New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy,) was a coastal cargo boat which was requisitioned by the Navy and converted into a minesweeper. She was sunk by a German mine 25 days after she was commissioned.”

HMNZS Humphrey : Converted trawler – minesweeper

111 Pennant No.: 8 1939-40, T06 after November 1940 Taken Over: 5 September 1939 by the NZ Division of the Royal Navy Commissioned: 16 October 1939 as HMS Humphrey Decommissioned: 18 April 1944 Displacement: 206 grt Dimensions: 35.3 x 6.7m ON: 143961 Port: Auckland Owner: Sanford Ltd., Auckland Built: 1918 by I.J. Abdela & Mitchell.Continue reading “HMNZS Humphrey : Converted trawler – minesweeper”