Two Navy Ships Visiting Wellington
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HMNZS TE KAHA (front) and HMNZS ENDEAVOUR conduct a Replenishment At Sea.
New Zealand Defence Force
Te Ope Kaatua O Aotearoa
Media Release
18 March 2009
TWO NAVY SHIPS VISITING WELLINGTON
This weekend Wellington will host two Royal New Zealand Navy ships at the same time.
The Navy's purpose built Fleet Replenishment Tanker, HMNZS ENDEAVOUR will berth at the Overseas Passenger Terminal at
8.00pm on Thursday 19 March and the ANZAC class Frigate HMNZS TE KAHA will berth at 0800 on Friday 20 March at Queens
Wharf.
The ships are conducting an operational visit to Wellington and the Commanding Officers will be conducting official
calls while they are here.
HMNZS TE KAHA will be open to the public of Wellington from 10.00am - 2.00pm on Sunday 22 March.
Commander Mat Williams, Commanding Officer and his 172 ship's company warmly invite Wellingtonians to come on board and
have a tour of the ANZAC class frigate at Queens Wharf.
TE KAHA has just returned from Fleet Concentration Period (East), which is an annual fleet training exercise conducted
off the New South Wales Coast for the Royal Australian Navy, Royal New Zealand Navy, Royal Australian Air Force and the
Royal New Zealand Air Force The exercise focuses on developing core maritime warfare skills in a multi-threat
environment. This is a key exercise for the RNZN and RNZAF to build skills and enhance interoperability with our closest
ally Australia.
HMNZS ENDEAVOUR will deploy early next month in company with the Navy's other ANZAC class frigate HMNZS TE MANA to China
and South East Asia. The aim of this deployment is to build on the emergent relationship with China and reinforce the
NZDF commitment to the South East Asian region through participation in regional exercise activity under the Five Power
Defence Arrangement and other regional bilateral and multi-lateral defence agreements.
ENDS
Currently 718 New Zealand Defence Force personnel are deployed on 14 operations, UN missions and defence exercises
around the world.