Ship details:Type: Converted trawler – minesweeper 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: 1918Continue reading “HMNZS Humphrey – This vessel was built to an Admiralty trawler pattern for the Royal Navy at the end of the First World War as a Strath-class minesweeper.”
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HMNZS Futurist (T09) – Converted trawler.Futurist was built as the German minesweeper, Papenburgh in WW1, surrendered in 1920, sold and in use as a Napier trawler.
The HMNZS Futurist docked at an unidentified wharf. She had been nominated for requisition and was already fitted with basic minesweeping gear whilst still fishing in April 1940. On 20 June 1940, the day after the sinking of the liner Niagara, she was requisitioned and commissioned for permanent service as a minesweeper.,Commissioned 1941Decommissioned 1944Functioned asContinue reading “HMNZS Futurist (T09) – Converted trawler.Futurist was built as the German minesweeper, Papenburgh in WW1, surrendered in 1920, sold and in use as a Napier trawler.”
HMS/HMNZS Gambia (pennant number 48, later C48) was a Crown Colony-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was in the service of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) as HMNZS Gambia from 1943 to 1946.
Telegraph branch She was named after the then Crown colony of The Gambia, and has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Gambia_%2848%29
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, a net layer) and transferred to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease in August 1944. Commissioned as HMS Pretext (Z284), she served the United Kingdom until she was returned toContinue reading “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.”
‘Very special’ moment for RNZAF pilot in remarkable restored Warbird
The Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) Squadron Leader Sean Perrett will be at the controls of a very special warbird this weekend when the restored P-51D Mustang debuts at Warbirds Over Wanaka. 28 MARCH, 2024 Ohakea-based Squadron Leader Perrett has nearly four decades of flying experience and is Flight Commander of the Air ForceContinue reading “‘Very special’ moment for RNZAF pilot in remarkable restored Warbird”
