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HMNZS ENDEAVOUR   A 11

HMNZS Endeavour alongside

FLEET BASE EAST Garden Island Sydney Australia

As the RNZN's purpose built fleet replenishment ship, ENDEAVOUR carries supplies and fuel to RNZN ships at sea and overseas ports. Supplies are carried in containers on deck and her holds can carry up to 7,500 tonnes of fuel. Commissioned in 1988, she is the third RNZN ship named ENDEAVOUR. The original ENDEAVOUR was Captain James Cook's ship on his first voyage to New Zealand.

Displacement 7300 tonnes
Length   138 metres
Beam   18 metres
Draught   4 metres
Machinery   One Mann Burmeister & Wain diesel developing 5300 horsepower.
Armament   Nil
Other    
Speed   14 knots
Range   10,000nm
Complement   11 Officers and 38 Ratings.

Ships History Section 

HMNZS Endeavour (A-184) 

Ship's Photo courtesy of WO Comms Jim Dell RNZN 

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Patapsco Class Gasoline Tanker:

  • Laid down, 1 August 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (T1-MT-M1) tanker hull, under a Maritime Commission contract at Cargill Inc., Savage, MN.
  • Launched, 4 November 1944
  • Commissioned USS Namakogon (AOG-53), 15 June 1945
  • Decommissioned, 20 September 1957, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Custody transferred to Commandant, 12th Naval District, 27 June 1962, for activation and transferred, under the Military Aid Program, to New Zealand, 5 October 1962
  • Commissioned HMNZS Endeavour (A-184), an Antarctic supply ship
  • Decommissioned and returned to US custody in 1971
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 15 April 1976
  • Transferred under the Security Assistance Program to Taiwan, 1 May 1976, renamed Lung Chuan (AOG-507)
  • Lung Chuan (AOG-507) was decommissioned, 1 April 2005, at Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown.

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