HMNZS RESOLUTION - A14
Specifications:
Standard Displacement: 2,262 tonnes
Length Overall: 68 metres
Beam: 13 metres
Draught: 4.4m
Speed: 11 knots
Range: 21,500 nautical miles
Complement: 41 (7 Officers, 34 Ratings)
Accommodation for 45 onboard.
Propulsion: Diesel-Electric.
Four Caterpillar D398B diesel generators (3,200 hp)
Twin shafts.
Bow thruster (550 hp)
Accurate charts are essential for safe navigation both on the open sea and on inshore waters. As the Royal New Zealand Navy's (RNZN) principal survey and research ship, RESOLUTION is used to survey and chart the waters in and around New Zealand and the Pacific.
RESOLUTION was formerly the US Navy Ship TENACIOUS, where she was utilised as a towed array sonar vessel deployed for three months at a time streaming a two-mile underwater listening device. She was commissioned into the RNZN on 13 February 1997.
RESOLUTION replaces HMNZ Ships TUI and MONOWAI as the Navy's primary survey and acoustic research vessel.
She is named after the sailing vessel HMS RESOLUTION, used by Captain James Cook, RN, during his second and third voyages to New Zealand between 1772 and 1779, thus recognising the extensive hydrographic survey work Cook and his team completed.
The ship's home port is Gisborne. HMNZS RESOLUTION also provides a scholarship for under-privileged high school students to participate in a 10 day passage on the SPIRIT OF NEW ZEALAND.
The inshore Survey Motor Boat (SMB) ADVENTURE is operated as a tender from HMNZS RESOLUTION
The ship's crest depicts an 'estoile', a six pointed star taken from the coat of arms granted to Captain Cook after his final voyage in HMS RESOLUTION. This creates a direct link with Cook's ship, and with Cook, who was the first navigator to chart New Zealand waters in detail.