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| Career (New Zealand) |
 Royal New Zealand Navy |
| Builder: |
George and Brown, Scotland |
| Commissioned: |
1944 |
| Decommissioned: |
1948 |
| Fate: |
broken up June 1951 |
| General characteristics |
| Class and type: |
Flower class corvette |
| Displacement: |
980 tons standard, 1350 tins full load |
| Length: |
63.5/58.8 m (208.25/193 ft) |
| Beam: |
10.1 m (33.25 ft) |
| Draught: |
5.3 m (17.5 ft) |
| Propulsion: |
2 fire tube boilers, one 4-cycle triple-expansion steam engine 2,880 ihp (2,130 kW) |
| Speed: |
16 knots at 2,750 hp |
| Range: |
3500 nautical miles at 12 knots (6500 km at 22 km/h) |
| Complement: |
85 men |
Sensors and
processing systems: |
asdic, radar (4x1-20mm) |
| Armament: |
1 x 4 in (102 mm) BL Mk IX gun, 8 x 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns ATW Hedgehog A/S Mortar
Depth charge projectors, 72 depth charges |
HMNZS Arbutus (K 403) was a modified Flower class corvette of the Royal New Zealand Navy. She was commissioned in 1944 and decommissioned in 1948.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Walters, Sydney David (1956) The Royal New Zealand Navy: Official History of World War II, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington Online
- McDougall, R J (1989) New Zealand Naval Vessels. Page 49-51. Government Printing Office. ISBN 9780477013994
