HMNZS Maori (P3570) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

HMNZS Maori (P3570) was a Fairmile B

Fairmile B motor launch

The Fairmile B motor launch was a type of Motor Launch built by Fairmile Marine during the Second World War for the Royal Navy for coastal operations.-Design:...

Motor Launch

A Motor Launch is a small military vessel in British navy service. It was designed for harbour defence and submarine chasing or for armed high speed air-sea rescue....

of the Royal New Zealand Navy

Royal New Zealand Navy

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Originally commissioned on 20 December 1943 with pennant number

Pennant number

In the modern Royal Navy, and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth, ships are identified by pennant numbers...

Q 409, she was part of the 80th Motor Launch Flotilla. Early in 1944 she went to the Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

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where she served under the operational control of COMSOPAC. After the end of the war she was sold.

In 1953 she was repurchased and recommissioned as HMNZS Maori (P3570).

In 1963 she was sold again and became the 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...

-Waiheke ferry Iris Moana.

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The Fairmile Flotillas of The Royal New Zealand Navy - by Ken R Cassells, Wellington, New Zealand Ship & Marine Society, 1993.

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