HMNZS Rata (T03)Converted merchant Ship for use as a minesweeper (no photos of her as a naval ship – have you any?)
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Converted Merchant Ships – HMNZS Muritai (T05)
HMNZS Muritai Minesweeper Converted merchant boat 1940-1946 Training and cable-lifting shipHMNZS Muritai, auxiliary minesweeper and anti-submarine patrol vessel, is the RNZN Ship Of The Week.The 462 ton Muritai was a Wellington harbour ferry built for Eastbourne Borough Council in 1922-23, and from a brief scan of some manuscript items in the Borough archives I gatherContinue reading “Converted Merchant Ships – HMNZS Muritai (T05)”
Converted Merchant Ships – HMNZS Matai (T01/T372)
HMNZS Matai (T01/T372) was a Marine Department lighthouse tender which was requisitioned by the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) and converted into a minesweeper. Operational history[edit] Matai was the government’s lighthouse tender servicing the marine lights around New Zealand and offshore islands, and had been used for cable laying in the 1930s. She was named after the native mataī tree. She was requisitioned on 3 March 1941 andContinue reading “Converted Merchant Ships – HMNZS Matai (T01/T372)”
Converted Merchant Ships – HMNZS Kapuni (T15)
Converted Merchant Ships – HMNZS Hawera (T16)
This is after HMNZS Hawera was taken out of service and laid up after WW2, sat there for many years gradually being scrapped. Here she is on the left in 1952, bridge gone HMNZS Hawera (T16) updated HMNZS Hawera (T16) (carried the name of a town without a port and without naval associations.)World War IIContinue reading “Converted Merchant Ships – HMNZS Hawera (T16)”
