The H.M.N.Z.S. Tamure coming into berth at Port Lyttelton 1970-09-12 Harley Flowers Follow Esmeralda (BE-43) 1961 photo of the Chilean Navy training ship Esmeralda (BE-43) as she taken on the pilot before entering a harbor of New Zealand. The small boat just off her bow is the HMNZS Tamure ( P3555 ). As the Tamure isContinue reading “The H.M.N.Z.S. Tamure (Q1193/P3555)”
Category Archives: Naval visitors to New Zealand
HMNZS Koura
Built: Ackerman Boat Works, California USA 1942 Type: Harbour/Seaward Defence Motor Launch Pennant No.: Q1350 / P3564 Named after: catfish Displacement: 47 tons, 54 tons full load Length: 72 ft,/22 mBeam:15.8 ft./4.8 mDraft: 5.3 ft./ 1.6 m. Propulsion: 2-shaft Hercules diesels, bhp 550 Speed: 12 knots Complement: 10 Armament: 1 x 20mm AA, 1 xContinue reading “HMNZS Koura”
USS Brooklyn (ACR-3) in Waitematā Harbour during a visit to New Zealand. 26 May 1901
The second USS Brooklyn (ACR-3/CA-3) was the third United States Navy armored cruiser, the only one to be named at commissioning for a city rather than a state. Ordered for $3,450,420.29 (hull and machinery),[3] she was launched on 2 October 1895 by William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company of Philadelphia; sponsored byContinue reading “USS Brooklyn (ACR-3) in Waitematā Harbour during a visit to New Zealand. 26 May 1901”
