HMNZS ENDEAVOUR - A11
Specifications:
Standard Displacement: 7,300 tonnes empty
12,300 tonnes laden
Length Overall: 138 metres
Beam: 18.4 metres
Draught: 4.5m empty
7.6m laden
Speed: 14 knots
Range: 10,000 nautical miles
Complement: 50 Officers and ratings
(13 Officers, 10 Senior Ratings, 27 Junior Ratings)
Propulsion: One Mann Burmeister & Wain diesel (5,300 hp)
As the Royal New Zealand Navy's (RNZN) purpose built fleet replenishment tanker, ENDEAVOUR carries supplies and fuel for RNZN, Commonwealth and Allied surface units. She can resupply ships at sea, or in overseas ports from the 7,500 tonnes of fuel in her eight tanks, or the supplies held in the four containers on deck. Additionally ENDEAVOUR can provide fuel to helicopters fitted with in flight refuelling.
Commissioned in Ulsan, South Korea on 8 April 1988, ENDEAVOUR set sail for New Zealand on 14 April. She is the third RNZN ship with this name, the original being the HM Barque ENDEAVOUR that carried Captain James Cook, RN, on his first voyage to New Zealand.
ENDEAVOUR's motto 'Nil intentatum' means 'Nothing unattempted'. Her crest features a navigator's compass and the stars of the Southern Cross, symbolising the pioneering navigations and survey work of Captain Cook.
Her home port is New Plymouth and she is affiliated with the IHC charity, New Plymouth.