Recent Activities
Following on from Christmas leave and the excitement of Fleet Divisions in January, RESOLUTION hurriedly prepared for her return trip to Napier and the Art Deco experience. We departed from the Naval Base on the morning of 16 February and the...
The Navy Hydrographic and Research Vessel, HMNZS RESOLUTION, returned to the Devonport Naval Base after a successful port visit to Napier in support of the annual Art Deco commemorations. This was the eighth year that RESOLUTION has attended this...
Hot on the heels of an earlier rescue mission involving a 53ft yacht which ran aground on a reef outside Nuku’alofa in mid October, personnel from the Navy’s hydrographic survey vessel, HMNZS RESOLUTION, again put their damage control...
The last week has been a busy yet rewarding one for RES and her crew. With a huge sense of satisfaction we completed our 10 day survey of the Nuku’alofa Harbour. We coloured in the last of our lines during the small hours of Thursday morning...
On September 22 HMNZS Resolution deployed for a three month survey task in the South West Pacific. In sparkling conditions she slipped from Devonport Naval base and started her passage north. The ship was loaded to the gunwhales with all types of...
With the ship’s first port visit to Nuka’alofa behind her, Resolution sailed for the survey grounds in and around the Tongan island of Tongatapu on Mon 29 September. After the initial euphoria of being in the tropical setting of the...
After a busy first half of the year at sea with Shipping Lane Four survey tasking off Gisborne, it was with some apprehension that HMNZS Resolution entered into her recent maintenance period. However with the usual no nonsense approach, the...
It was back to sea for HMNZS RESOLUTION in April, after successful completion of Officer of the Watch (B) training and a couple of short weeks ashore. We sailed from Auckland beating through the swell, with the weather looking rather ominous, eager...
The end of February saw survey operations continued apace despite the varying weather conditions and concurrent with ship’s Damage Control exercises and Engineering drills. However the beginning of March saw a period of heavy seas and the...
Following the port visit to Tauranga, the ship sailed for new survey grounds to the west of the Great Mercury Islands on Mon 4 Feb and experienced excellent conditions on the passage north, taking the opportunity to conduct boat drills, even...
Continuing with survey operations off the Mahia Peninsula, the beginning of the week saw the ship’s boarding team conduct a routine peacetime boarding exercise onboard. Several members of the ship’s company donned costumes and disguises...
Having returned from a well earned Christmas leave, HMNZS RESOLUTION set about preparing for the new survey season and during the first week back conducted a series of Harbour training serials under the guidance of the Maritime Operational...