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HMNZS Maroro alongside HMNZS Tamure. View full size (663×517) from John Currin (JC – Ex-RNZN) – Google+ Public Posts http://ift.tt/2hSbCSD via IFTTT via Blogger http://ift.tt/2hSt1dY

HMNMZS MARORO Built: Grays Harbour Shipbuilding USA Type: Harbour /Seaward Defence Motor Launch Pennant No.: Q1192/P3554 Name means: flying fish Displacement: 47 tons gross, 54 tons full load Length: 72 ft,/22 m Beam: 15.8 ft./ 4.8 m Draft: 5.3 ft./ 1.6 m. Propulsion: 2-shaft Gray diesels, bhp 330 Speed: = 10 knots Complement: 10 Armament:Continue reading “HMNMZS MARORO”

John Currin (JC – Ex-RNZN) originally shared: Was interested in this photo of HMNZS Hawea but more particularly the wooden hulled vessel Wairua. Remember when Algie was Bosun of the yard and moving Wairua from the corner of the basin to a berth a few metres away and often wondered what she had been andContinue reading “Was interested in this photo of HMNZS Hawea but more particularly the wooden hulled vessel…”

HMNZS Manuka Built: Mason Bros. , Auckland Type : Castle Class Minesweeper Pennant No.: T19 Named after : NZ tree Displacement: 540 tons std. Full load: 625 tons Length: 135.9 ft./41.4 m Beam: 23.3 ft./7.2 m Draft: 15 ft./4.6 m Propulsion: Triple Expansion, 480 hp, 1 shaft Speed: 10 knots Complement: 27 Armament: 1 ×Continue reading “HMNZS Manuka”

HMNZS Manuka (T 401)/(T19) MS Trawler of the Manuka class Navy The Royal New Zealand Navy Type MS Trawler Class Manuka Pennant T 401 Built by Senior Foundry (Auckland, New Zealand) : Muir & Houston, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.) Ordered Oct 1940 Laid down Feb 1941 Launched 23 Sep 1941 Commissioned 30 Mar 1942 End serviceContinue reading “HMNZS Manuka (T 401)/(T19)”