HMNZS Pukaki (2008)

HMNZS Pukaki was 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 include border and fisheries protection patrols, surveillance, boarding operations and search and rescue response.

For other ships with the same name, see HMNZS Pukaki.

Pukaki at Queens Wharf, Wellington.
History
New Zealand
Name: HMNZS Pukaki
Namesake: Lake Pukaki
Builder: Tenix Shipbuilding, Whangarei
Launched: 6 May 2008
Christened: 10 May 2008[1]
Stricken: 17 October 2019
Identification:
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)
Propulsion:
Speed:
  • Baseline speed 25 knots (46 km/h)
  • Economical speed 12 knots (22 km/h)
  • Loiter speed 4–7 knots
Range: 3,000 nmi (5,600 km)
Complement: 20 (+2) Navy, 4 Govt. agency officers, 12 additional personnel
Armament:
  • 3 × 12.75 mm machine guns, mounted forward and two either side of the funnel
  • Small arms

Pukaki was the third ship of this name to serve in the Royal New Zealand Navy and is named after Lake Pukaki.

HMNZS 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]

See also

References
  1. Pukaki - Patrol Vessel Named - Navy Today, Defence Public Relations Unit, Issue 133, 8 June, p. 36
  2. "New Zealand Navy retires two inshore patrol vessels". Naval Today. Retrieved 17 October 2019.


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