HMNZS Kahu (P3571)

(Post war)
History
New Zealand
Laid down: 1942
Commissioned: 1947
Decommissioned: 1965
General characteristics
Class & type: Fairmile B class motor launch
Displacement: 85 tons
Length: 112 ft (34 m)
Beam: 18 ft 3 in (5.56 m)
Draught: 4 ft 9 in (1.45 m)
Propulsion: Twin petrol engines totaling 1200 bhp
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range: 1,500 mi (1,300 nmi; 2,400 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 16
Sensors and
processing systems:
asdic, the forerunner of sonar
Armament:

1 × 3-lb Mk I gun 1 × twin 0.303-in Machineguns

12 depth charges
Armour: Wheelhouse plated

HMNZS Kahu I (P3571) was a Fairmile B motor launch of the Royal New Zealand Navy.

Originally commissioned on 20 December, 1943, with the pendant number Q 411, she was part of the 80th Motor Launch Flotilla. Early in 1944, she went to the Solomon Islands where she served under the operational control of COMSOPAC.

She was recommissioned from 1947 to 1965 as HMNZS Kahu I (P3571) [1]

See also

References

  1. "The RNZN Fairmiles". Retrieved 2007-11-14.

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