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This is a list of current commissioned Royal New Zealand Navy ships. As of 2025, the Navy operates eight commissioned ships. As of 2025, the Navy operates eight commissioned ships. The affiliations are ceremonial only, with the navy operationally stationed at the Devonport Naval Base , Auckland .
The MRV was accepted by the New Zealand Government on 31 May 2007 and commissioned on 12 June 2007 in Port Melbourne, Australia by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark. [8] The ship cost NZ$130 million to construct. [9] She was constructed with an ice-strengthened hull to allow her to operate in the subantarctic waters, where New ...
The ship was laid down under the joint Anzac project by Tenix Defence at Williamstown, Victoria in 1996, launched in 1997, and commissioned into the RNZN in 1999. In 2003 and 2004 and 2013–2014, Te Mana was deployed on operations in the Arabian Sea. In 2005, she became the first New Zealand warship to visit a Russian port, Vladivostok.
2021-current: HMNZS Canterbury: Logistics support ship 2007-current: Multi-role vessel HMNZS Charles Upham: Logistics support ship 1995-1998 HMNZS Endeavour: Antarctic support ship 1956-1962 HMNZS Endeavour: Fleet tanker 1988-2017 HMNZS Endeavour: Antarctic support ship 1962-1971 Leased from the US HS Maunganui: Hospital ship: 1941-1946
New Zealand’s Navy lost its first ship since World War II after the HMNZS Manawanui sank on a reef off the coast of Samoa on Sunday creating a potential environmental disaster in waters used for ...
Name Dates Grt Propulsion Port Notes Claymore: 1943-45 260 400 ihp SR TE coal Auckland former coastal cargo/passenger, bought from Northern Steamship [1] in 1940 for parts, converted to BDV 1942, [2] used for Sea Cadets in 1946, [3] sunk with explosives in 1953 [4]
WELLINGTON (Reuters) -A Royal New Zealand Navy vessel ran aground and sank off Samoa but all 75 crew and passengers on board were safe, the New Zealand Defence Force said in a statement on Sunday.
The HMNZS Manawanui was the first ship New Zealand lost since World War II, and was one of nine ships in the country's small navy fleet. ... A New Zealand navy vessel plowed into a reef near Samoa ...