The HMNZS Futurist docked at an unidentified wharf. She had been nominated for requisition and was already fitted with basic minesweeping gear whilst still fishing in April 1940. On 20 June 1940, the day after the sinking of the liner Niagara, she was requisitioned and commissioned for permanent service as a minesweeper.,Commissioned 1941Decommissioned 1944Functioned asContinue reading “HMNZS Futurist (T09) – Converted trawler.Futurist was built as the German minesweeper, Papenburgh in WW1, surrendered in 1920, sold and in use as a Napier trawler.”
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