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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, in company with Kiwi, carried out farewell manoeuvres on 29 November 2007, flying a paying-off pennant, in Waitemata Harbour prior to decommissioning on 11 December 2007.[1] The first ship was the training minesweeper HMNZS Wakakura (T00) (1926–1947). Wakakura is a Māori word which could mean “precious canoe” or could mean “training boat”. With the receivership of Helipro in 2014, the vessel was sold in February 2015 and moved to the Marlborough Sounds. As of 2017 HMNZS Wakakura (P3555) remains in Kaipapa Bay. from JC’s New Zealand Navy and Military News – Past and Present https://ift.tt/VvwgPh3 via JCs Royal New Zealand Navy Ships and News https://ift.tt/974IgLQ
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 in South Korea to a commercial design and commissioned on 8 April 1988, and decommissioned on 15 December 2017. from JC’s New Zealand Navy and Military News – Past and Present https://ift.tt/9jcO4PS via JCs Royal New Zealand Navy Ships and News https://ift.tt/m18uaAS
from JC’s New Zealand Navy and Military News – Past and Present https://ift.tt/tA6mncV via JCs Royal New Zealand Navy Ships and News https://ift.tt/rGME39i The armoured cruiser USS Seattle at Pipitea Wharf during a 1925 visit to Wellington New Zealand.12/4/2022 The seventh USS Washington (ACR-11/CA-11/IX-39), also referred to as “Armored Cruiser No. 11”, and later renamed Seattle and reclassified CA-11 and IX-39, was a United States Navy Tennessee-class armored cruiser. She was laid down on 23 September 1903 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, launched on 18 March 1905, sponsored by Miss Helen Stewart Wilson, daughter of United States Senator John L. Wilson of Washington state, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 7 August 1906, Captain James D. Adams in command. from JCs Royal New Zealand Navy https://ift.tt/Q2fimVp via JCs Royal New Zealand Navy Ships and News https://ift.tt/5h8Y2Hb |
AuthorJohn Currin served 15 years in the Royal New Zealand Navy and has retained an interest in naval, marine, military and happenings around the world. Archives
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