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Manawanui
taken by John Wilson, www.shipspotting.com
Built
1979
LR No.
7803322
Gross
498
Net
153
Dimensions
43.97m x 9.86m
Registered
Wellington
First Arrival
11 October 2004
Last Sailing
13 October 2004
Names
Star Perseus
Manawanui
Recovery
Years
1979-88
1988-2018
2018-

Commissioned by the Royal NZ Navy in April 1988 for use as a seagoing diving tender, she was built by Cochrane Shipbuilders in Selby as an oil rig tender under the name "Star Perseus", and has since served the nation as a diving support and salvage vessel, and a mine counter-measures support ship.

She is equipped with a compression chamber and a wet bell to enable deep diving, a photographic darkroom, a workshop including a lathe and electric and gas welding equipment, and can undertake patrol and surveillance tasks in NZ waters.

She is powered by two 565hp Caterpillar diesels, producing a service speed of 11 knots and giving her a 5000 nautical mile range.

She is crewed by two officers and twenty-two ratings, while the ship's badge is a diver's dry suit helmet surrounded by the four stars of the Southern Cross.

"Manawanui" translates as "Big Heart", and operates sporting RNZN pennant A09.

Further information about the ship can be found here:

Her visit to Onehunga was in preparation to conduct a sonar scan of the area around Pandora's Bank, off Spirits Bay, for the missing tuna boat "Iron Maiden", which sank on August 17, claiming the lives of two men. This was to assist with the Transport Accident Investigation Commission's enquiry into the sinking.

In July 2018, "Manawanui" was acquired by the Australian-based Major Projects Foundation and renamed "Recovery", an appropriate name given she will be carrying out oil spill prevention around the Pacific, including from the 3000-odd shipwrecks which are utilised as diving sites.


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