Arriving at Bluff NZ
for first time
28/7/2010

Protector class Ocean Patrol Vessel and another example of problems building a naval vessel.

Laid down 2/2005 for delivery in 4/2007 she was eventually launched 27/10/2007 and finally commissioned 18/10/2010.
Still plagued with faults she had engine problems on the voyage to Bluff.

1900 tonnes
22 knots
1 x 25 mm canon
2 x MG
1 X A109 helicopter , still to arrive.