HMNZS Muritai HMNZS Muritai (T05) and HMNZS Aroha (T24) 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 ofContinue reading “HMNZS Muritai (T05)”
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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.
HMNZS Matai – Mine sweeper – later functioned as transport ship 1945–1946 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. MATAI pre WWII She was requisitioned on 3 March 1941 and handedContinue reading “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.”
HMNZS Kapuni (T15)
HMNZS Kapuni (T15)- foreground Functioned as patrol boat 1940 and supply ship 1944–45. HMNZS Kapuni via WordPress https://ift.tt/Mjsu4ia
HMFS Viti (T373) 1941 December 16 Came under the control of the Royal New Zealand Navy
The story of HMFS VitiShip Details:Type: Minesweeper, patrol, anti-submarine vesselPennant No.: T373 (from 16/12/1941)Commissioned: 17 April 1941 ad HMFS Viti– NZNB control from 16 December 1941End of Service: As minesweeper ended service June 1944As supply ship decommissioned 7 November 1945Displacement: 676 tons (687 tonnes)Dimensions: 48.5 x 9.6mOwner: Fiji GovernmentBased: SuvaBuilt: Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering, HongContinue reading “HMFS Viti (T373) 1941 December 16 Came under the control of the Royal New Zealand Navy”
HMNZS Hawera (T16)
HMNZS Hawera Crew in Fiji HMNZS Hawera – pennant HMNZS Hawera (1914) Functioned as supply ship in 1945 HMNZS Hawera (T16) (carried the name of a town without a port and without naval associations.)World War II minesweeper,194th Minesweeping Group – Auckland=LL magnetic minesweepers: Hinau, Manuka, Rimu, Hawera, Kapuni-Vessel Name: HAWERA-Vessel ID: 1121387-Official No: 121387-Vessel Type:Continue reading “HMNZS Hawera (T16)”
