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The Lake-class inshore patrol vessel (also known as the Rotoiti class and the Protector class) is a ship class of inshore patrol vessels (IPVs) of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) which replaced the RNZN's Moa-class patrol boats in 2007–2008. All four vessels were originally named after New Zealand lakes. Two of the ships were sold to ...
No. 40 Squadron RNZAF Active June 1943 – October 1947 December 1954 – present Country New Zealand Branch Royal New Zealand Air Force Role Strategic and Tactical Air Transport Garrison/HQ RNZAF Base Auckland Motto(s) Maori: Ki nga hau e wha English: To the four winds Mascot(s) Mariners compass star Anniversaries 1 June Equipment Boeing 757, C-130J Super Hercules Engagements World War II ...
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 .
Commissioned patrol boats of the Royal New Zealand Navy from after World War II. Class types ... Royal New Zealand Navy Official web site; Sale of HMNZ Ships PUKAKI ...
Obsolete missile, no longer in service with the Royal New Zealand Navy. The Ikara was fitted to HMNZS Southland. One of the Leander-class frigates. Sea Cat: Seacat GWS-22: United Kingdom: Short-range surface-to-air anti-aircraft missile: 1960-1990s: Obsolete missile, no longer in service with the Royal New Zealand Navy.
The Lake-class patrol vessel was a class of patrol vessels built in 1974 for the Royal New Zealand Navy by the British boat builders Brooke Marine. There were four boats in the class: [Note 1] HMNZS Pukaki (P3568) HMNZS Rotoiti (P3569) HMNZS Taupo (P3570) HMNZS Hawea (P3571) All the boats were commissioned in 1975 and decommissioned in 1991
The New Zealand government had purchased 16 Short Sunderland MR5 flying boats as part of its first major postwar purchase of aircraft for the RNZAF. [42] These were to replace the Catalinas of No. 5 Squadron and the arrival of the first two Sunderlands at Laucala Bay on 13 June 1953 began the phasing out of the older aircraft.
Walters, Sydney David (1956) The Royal New Zealand Navy: Official History of World War II, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington Online; McDougall, R J (1989) New Zealand Naval Vessels. Page 37–48. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-477-01399-4; Royal New Zealand Navy Official web site