HMNZS Takapu

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Career (New Zealand) Naval flag of New Zealand Royal New Zealand Navy
Builder: Whangarei Engineering and Construction Company
Commissioned: 1980
General characteristics
Class and type: Moa-class inshore patrol vessel
Displacement: 91.5 ton standard; 105 ton full load
Length: 27 metres
Beam: 6.1 metres
Draught: 2.4 metres
Propulsion: Two Cummins diesels (710 hp) Twin shafts
Speed: 12 knots
Range: 3000 nm (6000 km)

HMNZS Takapu was a modified Moa-class inshore patrol vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy.

She was built by 1980 by the Whangarei Engineering and Construction Company as a version re-engineered for use as an inshore survey vessel.

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Survey ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy