HMNZS Aotearoa in 2022
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New Zealand | |
Name | Aotearoa |
Namesake | Māori for New Zealand |
Ordered | 2016 |
Builder | Hyundai Heavy Industries |
Cost | NZ$493 million 2016 [1] |
Laid down | 13 August 2018 |
Launched | 24 April 2019 |
Sponsored by | Patsy Reddy |
Christened | 25 October 2019[2] |
Commissioned | 29 July 2020[3] |
Homeport | New Plymouth |
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Status | In Service |
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Type | Auxiliary ship |
Displacement | 26,000 t (26,000 long tons) |
Length | 173.2 m (568 ft 3 in) |
Beam | 24.5 m (80 ft 5 in) |
Draught | 8.5 m (27 ft 11 in) |
Ice class | Polar Class 6 |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Helicopter (SH-2G, NH90, or A109LUH) |
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HMNZS Aotearoa (Māori: [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]),[a] formerly the Maritime Sustainment Capability project, is an auxiliary ship of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Builder Hyundai Heavy Industries delivered the ship to the Navy in June 2020,[6] and she was commissioned into service on 29 July 2020. Full operational capability was expected to be achieved in 2021.[7] The vessel serves as a replenishment oiler, and has replaced HMNZS Endeavour, the Navy’s last fleet oiler, which was decommissioned in December 2017.
Aotearoa is the largest ship the Royal New Zealand Navy has operated.[8]
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