Current Royal New Zealand Navy ships
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This is a list of current Royal New Zealand Navy ships. Note that many of the home ports are ceremonial only, with all the navy operationally stationed at the Devonport Naval Base
, Auckland
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frigates:
Replenishment vessel:
inshore patrol vessels:
Diving Support
Devonport Naval Base
Devonport Naval Base is the home of the Royal New Zealand Navy, located at Devonport, New Zealand on Auckland's North Shore. It is currently the only base of the navy that operates ships, and was a navy base from as far back as 1841...
, Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
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Naval Combat Force
Anzac classAnzac class frigate
The Anzac class is a ship class of ten frigates; eight operated by the Royal Australian Navy and two operated by the Royal New Zealand Navy...
frigates:
- HMNZS Te Kaha (F77)HMNZS Te Kaha (F77)HMNZS Te Kaha is one of ten Anzac class frigates, and one of two serving in the Royal New Zealand Navy . The name Te Kaha is Māori, meaning 'fighting prowess' or 'strength' ....
Home port Devonport Naval BaseDevonport Naval BaseDevonport Naval Base is the home of the Royal New Zealand Navy, located at Devonport, New Zealand on Auckland's North Shore. It is currently the only base of the navy that operates ships, and was a navy base from as far back as 1841... - HMNZS Te Mana (F111)HMNZS Te Mana (F111)HMNZS Te Mana is one of ten Anzac class frigates and one of two serving in the Royal New Zealand Navy. The name Te Mana is Māori, approximately translating as 'status' or 'authority' ....
Home port TaurangaTaurangaTauranga is the most populous city in the Bay of Plenty region, in the North Island of New Zealand.It was settled by Europeans in the early 19th century and was constituted as a city in 1963...
Naval Logistic Support Force
Multi-role vessel:- HMNZS Canterbury (L421) Home port LytteltonLyttelton, New ZealandLyttelton is a port town on the north shore of Lyttelton Harbour close to Banks Peninsula, a suburb of Christchurch on the eastern coast of the South Island of New Zealand....
Replenishment vessel:
- HMNZS Endeavour (A11)HMNZS Endeavour (A11)HMNZS Endeavour is the current fleet oiler for the Royal New Zealand Navy. She is named after James Cook's Bark Endeavour and is 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...
Home port New PlymouthNew PlymouthNew Plymouth is the major city of the Taranaki Region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after Plymouth, Devon, England, from where the first English settlers migrated....
Naval Combat Patrol Force
offshore patrol vessels:- HMNZS Otago (P148)HMNZS Otago (P148)HMNZS Otago is a Protector class off-shore patrol vessel in service with the Royal New Zealand Navy.The ship was built by Tenix as part of the New Zealand government's Royal New Zealand Navy plans, and was expected to enter service in late 2008. She was launched in Williamstown, Victoria on 18...
Home port Dunedin and Invercargill/ Bluff. - HMNZS Wellington (P55)HMNZS Wellington (P-55)HMNZS Wellington is a Protector class off-shore patrol vessel in the Royal New Zealand Navy. The ship was built by Tenix as part of the New Zealand government's Royal New Zealand Navy plans, and was originally expected to enter service during the winter of 2008...
Home port Wellington
inshore patrol vessels:
- HMNZS Rotoiti (P3569)
- HMNZS Hawea (P3567)
- HMNZS Pukaki (P3568
- HMNZS Taupo (P3570)
Hydrographic Force
Ocean-going survey vessel:- HMNZS Resolution (A14)HMNZS Resolution (A-14)HMNZS Resolution is the hydrographic ship of the Royal New Zealand Navy . Originally the United States Naval Ship USNS Tenacious , the Stalwart class ocean surveillance ship was used by the United States to locate and track Soviet submarines from 1989 to 1997, when she was transferred to the RNZN...
Home port GisborneGisborne, New Zealand-Economy:The harbour was host to many ships in the past and had developed as a river port to provide a more secure location for shipping compared with the open roadstead of Poverty Bay which can be exposed to southerly swells. A meat works was sited beside the harbour and meat and wool was shipped...
Diving Support
- HMNZS Manawanui (A09)HMNZS Manawanui (A09)HMNZS Manawanui was commissioned in 1988 as a diving support vessel for the Royal New Zealand Navy. Originally she was built as a diving support vessel, the Star Perseus, for North Sea oil rig operations....