Name HMS Waitemata Cost £12,600 for four boats Commissioned 19 September 1883 Length 19 m | Ordered 26 August 1882 Yard number 170 Launched 30 August 1883 Weight 12.2 tons | |
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Builder John I. Thornycroft & Company | ||
HMS Waitemata was a colonial service Defender-class torpedo boat designed by Thornycroft & Company for the defence of New Zealand, built at Chiswick in 1883 and shipped to New Zealand.
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