Builder Hyundai Heavy Industries delivered the ship to the Navy in June 2020,[6] and she was commissioned into service on 29 July 2020. Full operational capability was expected to be achieved in 2021.[7] The vessel will serve as a replenishment oiler, and has replaced HMNZS Endeavour, the Navy’s last fleet oiler, which was decommissioned in December 2017. Aotearoa is the largest ship the Royal New Zealand NavyContinue reading “HMNZS Aotearoa (Māori: [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]),[a] formerly the Maritime Sustainment Capability project, is an auxiliary ship of the Royal New Zealand Navy.”
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The HS Maunganui was a hospital ship that served in the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) during World War II.
Maunganui was converted from a 30-year-old oil burner, and was larger than the previous ships operated by the RNZN, those being the Maheno and Marama. She had electric lifts installed which could carry two stretchers each from deck to deck and a fresh water tank holding up to 700 tons of water. Also installed were an operating block containing rooms forContinue reading “The HS Maunganui was a hospital ship that served in the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) during World War II.”
HMNZS Charles Upham (A02) was a Mercandian 2-in-1 class roll-on/roll-off vessel operated by the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) between 1994 and 2001.
HMNZS Charles Upham HMNZS Charles Upham The vessel was built for the Danish shipping company Mercandia during the early 1980s, and operated under the names Mercandian Queen II and Continental Queen II. The New Zealand Defence Force had identified the need for a logistic support ship as early as the 1970s but it was not until the 1991 white paper that planning to acquire a shipContinue reading “HMNZS Charles Upham (A02) was a Mercandian 2-in-1 class roll-on/roll-off vessel operated by the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) between 1994 and 2001.”
HMNZS Canterbury is a multi-role vessel (MRV)[clarification needed] of the Royal New Zealand Navy.
Navy, Air, Army, HMNZS Canterbury, MRV, Samoa, Tonga, Tsunami, Deployment: HMNZS Canterbury deploys to Tonga and Samoa after a Tsunami in the Pacific region devastated much of Samoa South Coast and a small Island in Tonga. Aerial view of Niuatoputapu Island, NTT with Canterbury anchored offshore. She was commissioned in June 2007, and is theContinue reading “HMNZS Canterbury is a multi-role vessel (MRV)[clarification needed] of the Royal New Zealand Navy.”
HMNZS Endeavour (A11) was the fleet oiler for the Royal New Zealand Navy.
She was named after James Cook’s Bark Endeavour and is the third ship in the RNZN to carry that name, though if continuity with the Royal Navy ships of the name HMS Endeavour is considered, she is the twelfth. The previous two ships of the RNZN were Antarctic research support vessels. Endeavour was built inContinue reading “HMNZS Endeavour (A11) was the fleet oiler for the Royal New Zealand Navy.”
