8 x depth charges ASDIC Complement: 10 officers and ratings Builder: Everett Marine Ways Inc near Seattle, Washington, United States – ordered 21 February 1942, completed January 1943 Key Dates: Commissioned 13 May 1943 as Q1187 [Tarapunga] Paid off 19 September 1945 [Tarapunga] sold privately but returned in 1950 to the RNZN Pennant No.: Q1187 as SDML Renamed: Tarapunga as Mako 1980Continue reading “History of HMNZS Tarapunga (Q1187)(PP3566) as far as I can find out.”
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HDML – Q1187 – Tarapunga I (P3566)
HMNZS Tarapunga Ex Q1187 – arrives in New Zealand Everett Marine Ways Inc. Everett, Washington. (Contract Number: D.A.N.O.B. 586) This Company also built four craft. They were Q1187, Q1188, Q1189, Q1190. They were shipped to Wellington, N.Z. from Vancouver as deck cargo on the ship Kootenay Park arriving Wellington on the 30th April 1943. Q1187 wasContinue reading “HDML – Q1187 – Tarapunga I (P3566)”
