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Anonymous ID: a3df12 Oct. 6, 2024, 4:49 a.m. No.21718615   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8735 >>8784 >>8791

Navy vessel HMNZ Manawanui capsizes off Samoa after fire, NZDF confirms

A Royal NZ Navy ship which ran aground and caught fire has since capsized off the coast of the Samoan island of Upolu, authorities have confirmed.

The HMNZS Manawanui "was known to have capsized and was below the surface" by 9am, the NZ Defence Force confirmed this afternoon.

The $100m vessel was on fire and listing heavily, after running aground before 7pm last night. Photos from the scene showed smoke billowing from the stranded ship.

All 75 crew and passengers onboard were safely rescued overnight. Two people needed hospital treatment for minor injuries, one with a dislocated shoulder and another with a hurt back.

 

>75 persons onboard wiki says crew is 39 wonder who are the passengers?

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/10/06/navy-vessel-capsizes-off-samoa-after-fire-nzdf-confirms/

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMNZS_Manawanui_(2019)

Anonymous ID: a3df12 Oct. 6, 2024, 5:04 a.m. No.21718666   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8675

Australia sees benefits in NZ becoming more 'militarily capable'

New Zealand becoming more militarily capable would be of "benefit" to Australia, the nation's defence minister says.

Richard Marles, who is also Australia's deputy prime minister, told Q+A his country was willing to help "assist" improving capability in New Zealand's military.

He added that a "more capable New Zealand is very much in the interests of Australia".

Marles has been in Auckland for the South Pacific Defence Ministers' Meeting this week.

He was asked about how Australia viewed the debate over AUKUS Pillar Two and whether New Zealand could end up joining the security pact.

 

Odd coinkydink that one of the few ships in the NZ navy sinks >>21718615