HMNZS Waima
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.png) HMNZS Waima | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 New Zealand | |
| Name | Waima |
| Builder | Stevenson & Cook, Port Chalmers |
| Launched | 3 April 1943 |
| Commissioned | 28 March 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: T33/T349 |
| Fate | Sold to Red Funnel Trawlers |
 Australia | |
| Name | Moona |
| Owner | Red Funnel Trawlers |
| Acquired | 1946 |
| In service | 1946 |
| Out of service | 1960 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1963 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Castle-class minesweeper |
| Tonnage | 290 GRT |
| Displacement | 625 tons |
| Length | 135 ft (41 m) |
| Beam | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
| Depth | 13 feet (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion | Single screw, triple reciprocating engine |
| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
HMNZS Waima was one of eight steel New Zealand-built Castle-class trawlers built and commissioned by the Royal New Zealand Navy during World War II.
The vessel was ordered after the New Zealand government, facing a requirement for more minesweepers to operate in home waters, chose the Castle-class design because it was simple enough to be built with the country's limited ship construction facilities at the time.[1]