HMNZS Resolution
HMNZS Resolution
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Name | USNS Tenacious |
Ordered | 20 February 1987 |
Builder | VT Halter Marine, Inc., Moss Point, Mississippi |
Laid down | 26 February 1988 |
Launched | 17 February 1989 |
Commissioned | 29 September 1989 |
Stricken | 6 February 1997 |
Fate | Sold to New Zealand |
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Name | HMNZS Resolution |
Namesake | Cook's sloop Resolution |
Acquired | 6 February 1997 |
Commissioned | 13 February 1997 |
Decommissioned | 27 April 2012 |
Homeport | Gisborne[1] |
Fate | Sold into civilian service |
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Name | RV Geo Resolution |
Owner | EGS Group |
Acquired | 11 October 2014 |
Homeport | Hong Kong |
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Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship |
Displacement | 2,262 tonnes |
Length | 68 m (223 ft) |
Beam | 13 m (43 ft) |
Draught | 4.4 m (14 ft) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Range | 21,500 nautical miles (39,800 km; 24,700 mi) |
Boats & landing craft carried | (SMB) Adventure |
Complement |
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HMNZS Resolution (A14) was a hydrographic ship of the
Construction
The ship's construction contract was awarded 20 February 1987 to
Operational history
United States
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During the
Tenacious was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and sold to New Zealand on 6 February 1997.
New Zealand
On commissioning into the RNZN on 13 February 1997, the ship was renamed HMNZS Resolution, after the sailing sloop HMS Resolution, used by James Cook during his second and third voyages of exploration, in recognition of the extensive hydrographic survey work done by Cook.[3] Resolution replaced HMNZ Ships Tui and Monowai as the navy's primary survey and acoustic research vessel.[3] She undertook various marine survey tasks, including for the Land Information New Zealand agency.[1] SMB Adventure was operated by Resolution as a tender and survey motor boat.
Resolution sponsored a scholarship for under-privileged high school students to participate in a 10-day passage on the sail training ship Spirit of New Zealand. On occasion, university and high school students were embarked aboard Resolution as part of the 'Students at Sea' programme.[1]
On 22 February 2011, Resolution was underway off Christchurch when the
Resolution was decommissioned at Devonport Naval Base on 27 April 2012.[3] She was subsequently sold to EGS Group, a private surveying company, and renamed RV Geo Resolution. Following the sale she left Devonport Naval Base for the final time on 11 October 2014.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b c HMNZS Resolution – Navy Today, Defence Public Relations Unit, Issue 133, 8 June, Page 30
- ^ USNI News:Twenty Six US Navy Ship Naming Controversies
- ^ a b c ""Bon Voyage Wellington" - Last Visit from HMNZS Resolution" (Press release). New Zealand Defence Fore. 2 April 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
- ^ S/Lt Dave Jaquiery, 'End of an Era,' Navy Today, April–May 2012, 12.
- ^ "Resolution Sold, Departs Devonport" (PDF). Navy Today. No. 184. Royal New Zealand Navy. November 2014. p. 23. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
External links
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- United States Naval Vessel Register AGOS17
- NavSource
- Resolution For Sale – Auckland Shipbrokers webpage advertising the sale of the ship