HMNZS “Simplon” 69 ton 1918 trawler/coaster Returned to Sanfords in 1946, The fishing trawlers Nora Niven and Simplon were requisitioned by the Government and equipped as minesweepers. They swept seventeen mines off Farewell Spit and eighteen in the Three Kings area. Others had probably sunk or broken adrift. The two little fishing boats of 1918 were the forebears of the Royal New Zealand Navy's numerous minesweepers of the Second World War. The Nora Niven herself survived to take a small part in their activities.

HMNZS Simplon

HMNZS “Simplon” 69 ton 1918 trawler/coaster Returned to Sanfords in 1946,

The fishing trawlers Nora Niven and Simplon were requisitioned by the Government and equipped as minesweepers. They swept seventeen mines off Farewell Spit and eighteen in the Three Kings area. Others had probably sunk or broken adrift. The two little fishing boats of 1918 were the forebears of the Royal New Zealand Navy's numerous minesweepers of the Second World War. The Nora Niven herself survived to take a small part in their activities.