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)”
