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Converted Merchant Ships – HMNZS Hawera

HMNZS Hawera (T16) updated

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HMNZS Hawera – unknown HDML alongside
This is after Hawera was taken out of service and laid up after WW2, sat there for many years gradually being scrapped. Here she is on the left in 1952, bridge gone
HMNZS Hawera Crew in Fiji
HMNZS Hawera – pennant
HMNZS Hawera (1914) Functioned as supply ship in 1945

HMNZS Hawera (T16) (carried the name of a town without a port and without naval associations.)
World War II minesweeper,
194th Minesweeping Group – Auckland=LL magnetic minesweepers: Hinau, Manuka, Rimu, Hawera, Kapuni-Vessel Name: HAWERA-Vessel ID: 1121387-Official No: 121387-Vessel Type: Coastal vessel-Tonnage: 174 gross-Owner: South Taranaki Shipping Company-Built: 1912-Builder: Brown, W.H., Auckland-Engine: Sream, compound,154 ihp–Date of Fate: 1957-Type of Fate: Broken up-Region of Fate: Auckland region-Vessel Abstract: Saw war service as H.M.N.Z.S. HAWERA 1943-45.,
Functioned as supply ship in 1945.

The remains of HMNZS Hawera