Build Date 1942-1943 Boat Builder Seager Brothers Length 135 Feet / 41 Meters Beam 23 Feet / 7 Meters Tawhai the Castle-Class Minesweeper Tawhai would become one of the last four composite Castle-Class minesweepers to be built for the Royal New Zealand Navy during World War Two. The other three were Hinau, Manuka and Rimu. […]
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Build Date 1903 Boat Builder George Niccol Length 74 Feet 3 Inches Beam 21 Feet 4 Inches Altair’s Early Years Built in Auckland in 1903 by George Niccol, Altair was a ketch-rigged hold scow. Her first owners were Hugh Munro Wilson and Ernest Athole Edgecumbe who owned her from 1903 to 1907 and George Valletort
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Build Date 1941 Boat Builder Senior Foundry Company, Auckland Length 57 Feet Beam 14 Feet 4 Inches Building Hinau Realising there was a need for more minesweepers around New Zealand’s waters the government commissioned the build of several Castle-Class minesweepers. This design was chosen for its simplicity at a time when New Zealand’s ship building
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Build Date 1876 Boat Builder Rufus Dunning Length 52 Feet 6 Inches Beam 15 Feet 8 Inches Everything We Know About Lady of the Lake Lady of the Lake was one of the first scows built in New Zealand and would become known as one of the “lake series” of scows which included Lake Erie,
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Build Date 1875 Boat Builder George Callan Sharp Length 77 Feet Beam 21 Feet 2 Inches Everything We Know About Lake Superior Built by George Callan Sharp in in Pakiri, Lake Superior wound have a short trading life. As only the second scow built in New Zealand she was built like Lake Erie with Leeboards
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Build Date 1876 Boat Builder John Darroch Length 57 Feet 6 Inches Beam 15 Feet 6 Inches Everything We Know About Lake St Clair Built in 1876 by John Darroch, Lake St Clair was a schooner-rigged deck scow. Darroch built her at Te Kapa Inlet in Mahurangi making her one of only two scows built
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Build Date 1876 Boat Builder Septimus Meiklejohn Length 60 Feet Beam 17.7 Feet Everything We Know About Lake Michigan Built in 1876 by Septimus Meiklejohn, Lake Michigan was first registered on the 14th September 1876 at the Port of Auckland. She was owned by the builder himself and Donald Hugh McKenzie. As one of the
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Build Date 1873 Boat Builder Septimus Meiklejohn Length 60.6 Feet Beam 17.3 Feet Building Lake Erie Septimus Meiiklejohn built Lake Erie in Omaha in 1873. She started life as a fore-and-aft schooner rigged deck scow owned by the builder himself Septimus Meiklejohn, Geoge Spencer and William Henry. Lake Erie made history as the first registered
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Build Date 1941 Boat Builder Mason Bros. Engineering Co. Ltd. (W.G. Lowe & Sons Ltd.) Length 135.9 Feet Beam 23.3 Feet Manuka’s War Work Built in 1941 for the Royal New Zealand Navy as a ‘double L’ magnetic minesweeper. There were only three built for the NZ Navy and all were named after NZ trees.
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Build Date 1908 Boat Builder Davey Darroch Length 67.1 Feet Beam 18.6 Feet Jane Gifford’s Early Trading Days Built out of kauri in 1908 by Davey Darroch Jane Gifford was named her after the ship that brought his grandfather George out to New Zealand in 1842. From 1908 to 1916 she was owned by several
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