Engineering:Lake-class patrol vessel

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Class overview
Name: Lake-class patrol boat
Builders: Brooke Marine, Britain
Operators:  Royal New Zealand Navy
In service: 1975 - 1991
Completed: 4
Active: none
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Displacement: 105 tons standard, 135 tons full load
Length: 107.8 ft (32.9 m)
Beam: 20 ft (6.1 m)
Draught: 11.1 ft (3.4 m)
Propulsion:

2 x Paxman 12Y JCM diesels

3,000 hp, 2 shafts
Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range: 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi)
Complement: 21
Armament:

2 x 12.7mm machine guns

1 x 81mm mortar

The Lake-class patrol vessel was a class of patrol vessels built in 1974 for the Royal New Zealand Navy by the British boat builders Brooke Marine.

There were four boats in the class:[Note 1]

  • HMNZS Pukaki (P3568)
  • HMNZS Rotoiti (P3569)
  • HMNZS Taupo (P3570)
  • HMNZS Hawea (P3571)

All the boats were commissioned in 1975 and decommissioned in 1991

See also

Notes

  1. The later Protector class inshore patrol vessels reused the same pennant numbers.

References

  • McDougall, R J (1989) New Zealand Naval Vessels. Page 98-100. Government Printing Office. ISBN:978-0-477-01399-4