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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

"CASTLE" RNZN trawlers (1941 - 1944)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Aroha (RNZN) T24 - T396   Stevenson & Cook, Port Chalmers, New Zealand   8.9.1942 5.1943 sold 1946
Awatere (RNZN) T25 - T397   Patent Slip, Wellington, New Zealand   26.9.1942 6.1943 sold 1946
Hautapu (RNZN) T26 - T340   Stevenson & Cook, Port Chalmers, New Zealand   18.11.1942 2.1944 sold 1950
Hinau (RNZN) T17 - T399   Senior Foundry, Auckland, New Zealand   28.8.1941 7.1942 sold 1955
Maimai (RNZN) T27 - T338   Stevenson & Cook, Port Chalmers, New Zealand   25.2.1943 1944 sold 1946
Manuka (RNZN) T19 - T401   Mason, Auckland, New Zealand   23.9.1941 3.1942 sold 1946
Pahau (RNZN) T28 - T351   Stevenson & Cook, Port Chalmers, New Zealand   3.4.1943 2.1944 sold 1949
Puriri (RNZN)     Stevenson & Cook, Port Chalmers, New Zealand   1941 1941 sunk 14.5.1941
Rimu (RNZN) T18 - T402   Seager, Auckland, New Zealand   9.9.1941 7.1942 sold 1955
Tawhai (RNZN) T348   Seager, Auckland, New Zealand   20.7.1943 4.1944 sold 1946
Waiau (RNZN)     Mason, Auckland, New Zealand   --- --- cancelled 1946
Waiho (RNZN) T34 - T403   Stevenson & Cook, Port Chalmers, New Zealand   19.2.1944 6.1944 sold 1946
Waiiti (RNZN)     Stevenson & Cook, Port Chalmers, New Zealand   --- --- cancelled 10.1943
Waikaka (RNZN)     Stevenson & Cook, Port Chalmers, New Zealand   --- --- cancelled 10.1943
Waikanae (RNZN)     Stevenson & Cook, Port Chalmers, New Zealand   --- --- cancelled 10.1943
Waikato (RNZN) T343   Mason, Auckland, New Zealand   16.10.1943 3.1944 sold 1946
Waima (RNZN) T33 - T349   Stevenson & Cook, Port Chalmers, New Zealand   11.12.1943 1944 sold 1946
Waipu (RNZN) T32 - T357   Stevenson & Cook, Port Chalmers, New Zealand   31.7.1943 11.1943 sold 1946

 

Displacement standard, t

447

Displacement full, t

625

Length, m

38.1 pp

Breadth, m

7.16

Draught, m

4.27 maximal

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 DCT (4), mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

42

Project history: Project is created on a basis of Castle class trawlers from First World War. Part of the ships had composite hulls. Minesweeping trawlers.

Modernizations: Some units had composite hull.

Naval service: Puriri was mined in 1941.

 

 Hautapu 1946

 

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