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"CASTLE" trawlers (HINAU) (1941 - 1944)


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 Hautapu 1946  

Ships


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


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

447

Displacement full, t625
Length, m38.1 pp
Breadth, m7.16
Draught, m4.27 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

Complement42


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 <i>Hautapu</i> 1946  
 Hautapu 1946  


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.