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Monday, 25 October 2021
HMNZS Pukaki (Loch Class)
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Thursday, 21 October 2021
HMNZS Koura
Built: Ackerman Boat Works, California USA 1942
Type: Harbour/Seaward Defence Motor Launch
Pennant No.: Q1350 / P3564
Named after: catfish
Displacement: 47 tons, 54 tons full load
Length: 72 ft,/22 mBeam:15.8 ft./4.8 mDraft: 5.3 ft./ 1.6 m.
Propulsion: 2-shaft Hercules diesels, bhp 550
Speed: 12 knots
Complement: 10
Armament: 1 x 20mm AA, 1 x 0.5in Colt Browning mg, 2 x .303 mg , depth charges
Q1350 was one of the 16 Harbour Defence Motor Launches (HDML) to be delivered to the RNZN in 1943. She was commissioned on 27 March 1944 and assigned to the Auckland flotilla. Her duties included anti-submarine patrols in the port approaches and the outer Hauraki Gulf north to Cape Brett.
She paid off at Auckland on 28 July 1945 and was laid up for disposal. But in October 1946 she was withdrawn from sale for reserve. In 1948 Admiralty reclassified the HDMLs as Seaward Defence Motor Launches and in 1948 she was commissioned for RNZNVR duties at Dunedin. In 1950 she was renumbered P3564 and named Toroa.
In 1955 the armament was removed and in 1967 she was renamed HMNZS Koura and in early 1968 she transferred to the Auckland RNZNVR. In 1972 she was assigned to the Fishery Protection Squadron for three years before returning to the RNZNVR again. She served there until she returned to Auckland Division in March 1980.
Koura was decommissioned on 3 March 1984 and handed over to the Historical Maritime Park at Paeroa as a museum ship.
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Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
HMNZS Janie Seddon 1941-1944
Evans Bay Slip Way the three vessel’s are Uss Co SS TAKAPUNA , JANIE SEDDON , USS SS KOMATA
Built 1901 for NZ Government with a sister Lady Roberts.
She was HMS Janie Seddon 1939-1941 and HMNZS Janie Seddon 1941-1944
She is reported to have laid a minefield at Wellington in WW1 and was used as an examination vessel in WW2.
She was HMS Janie Seddon 1939-1941 and HMNZS Janie Seddon 1941-1944
She is a twin screw submarine mining vessel.
This scan was made from the 1920 Fleming and Fergusson Ltd of Paisley catalogue.
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USS Brooklyn (ACR-3) in Waitematā Harbour during a visit to New Zealand. 26 May 1901
The second USS Brooklyn (ACR-3/CA-3) was the third United States Navy armored cruiser, the only one to be named at commissioning for a city rather than a state.
Ordered for $3,450,420.29 (hull and machinery),[3] she was launched on 2 October 1895 by William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company of Philadelphia; sponsored by Miss Ida May Schieren, daughter of Charles A. Schieren, Mayor of Brooklyn, New York; and commissioned on 1 December 1896, Captain Francis Augustus Cook in command.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Brooklyn_(ACR-3)
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Sunday, 17 October 2021
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Friday, 15 October 2021
HMNZS Te Kaha Joins Multinational South China Sea Transit
Royal New Zealand Navy frigate HMNZS Te Kaha is joining military partners as it transits the South China Sea en route to a major international defense exercise.
The New Zealand Defence Force last month announced its participation in Exercise Bersama Gold 21, and that it would interact with the United Kingdom’s Carrier Strike Group (CSG) as it conducts engagement activities in the Indo-Pacific region.
While with the CSG in recent days, there have also been exercises and training with ships from Japan, the Netherlands, Canada, and the United States, including the US aircraft carriers USS Carl Vinson and USS Ronald Reagan.
HMNZS Te Kaha and the Navy’s replenishment tanker HMNZS Aotearoa, with a Seasprite helicopter on board, departed Auckland in September.
HMNZS Aotearoa recently met up with HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy’s flagship vessel in the CSG, as both ships conducted exercises off the coast of Guam.
Now it is HMNZS Te Kaha’s turn as the frigate enters the South China Sea and transits in company with the CSG and ships of other partner nations.
The NZDF has operated in the South East Asia region for decades as part of bilateral and regional defence engagement, and demonstrates its commitment to regional security through its presence in the region.
NZDF deployments exercise freedom of navigation and overflight. The NZDF undertakes all activities in accordance with international law, and for ships in particular the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
The South China Sea is one of the world’s major sea lanes and is routinely transited by merchant and naval vessels and aircraft.
HMNZS Aotearoa is en route to Singapore for Bersama Gold 21, a major exercise marking the 50th anniversary of the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA), which is being held off the coast of Singapore and the Malaysian Peninsula.
The nations of the FPDA are Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand.
A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion will join the exercise, and will also interact with the CSG.
After about a week with the CSG, HMNZS Te Kaha will head to Singapore to participate in Bersama Gold 21.
Exercises with international militaries are designed to enhance interoperability and strengthen relationships.
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Wednesday, 13 October 2021
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