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HMNZS Resolution (A14) was a hydrographic ship of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN).

HMNZS Resolution (originally  USNS Tenacious (T-AGOS-17) docked at Wellington, New Zealand. Tenacious (foreground) and sister ship Contender tied up at Bishop’s Point, Pearl Harbor, in 1991 Originally the United States Naval Ship USNS Tenacious (T-AGOS-17), the Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship was used by the United States to locate and track Soviet submarines from 1989 to 1997, when she was transferred to theContinue reading “HMNZS Resolution (A14) was a hydrographic ship of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN).”

Starman loads Lake Class patrol boats for the New Zealand Navy 1974

  Starman  loads Lake Class patrol boats for the New Zealand Navy 1974                                                   Photographs above © Dick Young     Lake Class (PC) Patrol Boats     Displacement (tons): 105 Standard, 135 Full Load DimensionsContinue reading “Starman loads Lake Class patrol boats for the New Zealand Navy 1974”

HMNZS Wakakura was the second ship of this name to serve in the New Zealand Navy.

  HMNZS Wakakura (P3555) was a Moa-class inshore patrol vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy. It was commissioned in March 1985 for the Naval Volunteer Reserve. Wakakura was attached to the Wellington division of the Naval Volunteer Reserve from her commissioning until 2005, when she returned to the fleet base in Auckland. Wakakura, inContinue reading “HMNZS Wakakura was the second ship of this name to serve in the New Zealand Navy.”

HMNZS Endeavour (A11) was a fleet oiler for the Royal New Zealand Navy.

  She was named after James Cook’s Bark Endeavour and 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 a fleet oiler for the Royal New Zealand Navy.”