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)”