HMNZS Kahu (P3571)

HMNZS "Kahu I" (P3571) was a "Fairmile B" motor launch of the Royal New Zealand Navy.

Originally commissioned on 20 December, 1943, with the pendant number "Q 411", she was part of the 80th Motor Launch Flotilla. Early in 1944, she went to the Solomon Islands where she served under the operational control of COMSOPAC.

She was recommissioned from 1947 to 1965 as HMNZS "Kahu I" (P3571) [cite web
url = http://jproc.ca/rrp/fairmile2.html
title = The RNZN Fairmiles
accessdate = 2007-11-14]

References

Reading

*"The Fairmile Flotillas of The Royal New Zealand Navy" - by Ken R Cassells, Wellington, New Zealand Ship & Marine Society, 1993.

ee also

*HMNZS Maori (P3570)
*New Zealand Coastal Forces of World War II

External links

* [http://nznavy.bravehost.com/Stuft.html Wartime picture of "ML Q 411"] (Kahu I P3571) (scroll to bottom)