HMNZS Tarapunga HDML HMNZS Tarapunga flying her paying off pennant after many years service in the Hydrographic branchSurvey Equipment:Fitted to Q1187/P3566 when converted in 1950-51 Both Q1187 (Tarapunga) & Q1188 (Takapu) shipped as deck cargo from Vancouver aboard SS Kootenay Park and arrived at Wellington on 30 April 1943. There they were unloaded by floatingContinue reading “Survey Ships and Oceanographic Research – HMNZS Tarapunga (P3566/Q1187)”
