HMNZS Pukaki (2008)
HMNZS Pukaki is a Lake-class inshore patrol vessel inshore patrol boat of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Pukaki was launched in Whangarei Harbour on 6 May 2008. Its primary duties included border and fisheries protection patrols, surveillance, boarding operations and search and rescue response.
 Pukaki at Queens Wharf, Wellington | |
| History | |
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 New Zealand | |
| Name | HMNZS Pukaki |
| Namesake | Lake Pukaki |
| Builder | Tenix Defence, Whangarei |
| Launched | 6 May 2008 |
| Christened | 10 May 2008[1] |
| Stricken | 17 October 2019 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Lake-class inshore patrol vessel |
| Displacement | 340 t (335 long tons) loaded |
| Length | 55 m (180 ft 5 in) |
| Beam | 9 m (29 ft 6 in) |
| Draught | 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in) |
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| Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km) |
| Complement | 20 (+2) Navy, 4 Govt. agency officers, 12 additional personnel |
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Pukaki was the third ship of this name to serve in the Royal New Zealand Navy and is named after Lake Pukaki.
Pukaki was decommissioned at Devonport Naval Base on 17 October 2019. Regulatory changes in 2012 resulted in operating restrictions around speed and sea states being imposed on them. Subsequently the RNZN assessed them as no longer being suited to the heavy seas typically encountered off New Zealand and further afield.[2]
In 2022, Pukaki, along with her sister Rotoiti, was sold to Ireland for use by the Irish Naval Service.[3]
References
- Pukaki - Patrol Vessel Named - Navy Today, Defence Public Relations Unit, Issue 133, 8 June, p. 36
- "New Zealand Navy retires two inshore patrol vessels". Naval Today. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- Laffan, Rebecca (13 March 2022). "Government purchases two inshore patrol vessels from New Zealand in €26m investment". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
