HMNZS Maori (P3570)

HMNZS "Maori" (P3570) was a Fairmile B Motor Launch of the Royal New Zealand Navy

Originally commissioned on 20 December 1943 with pennant number "Q 409", 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. After the end of the war she was sold.

In 1953 she was repurchased and recommissioned as HMNZS "Maori" (P3570). [cite web
url = http://jproc.ca/rrp/fairmile2.html
title = The RNZN Fairmiles
accessdate = 2007-11-14]

In 1963 she was sold again and became the Auckland-Waiheke ferry "Iris Moana".

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 Kahu (P3571)
*New Zealand Coastal Forces of World War II