HMNZS Resolution
{{Short description|Royal New Zealand Navy surveillance ship}}
{{other ships|HMS Resolution|Tenacious (disambiguation){{!}}Tenacious}}
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{{Use New Zealand English|date=May 2013}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=File:HMNZS Resolution.JPG |Ship caption=HMNZS Resolution }} {{Infobox ship career |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|naval}} |Ship name=USNS Tenacious |Ship namesake= |Ship ordered=20 February 1987 |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=VT Halter Marine, Inc., Moss Point, Mississippi |Ship laid down=26 February 1988 |Ship launched=17 February 1989 |Ship commissioned=29 September 1989 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship struck=6 February 1997 |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honors= |Ship fate=Sold to New Zealand |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship career |Ship country=New Zealand |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|New Zealand|naval}} |Ship name=HMNZS Resolution |Ship namesake=Cook's sloop Resolution |Ship acquired=6 February 1997 |Ship commissioned=13 February 1997 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned=27 April 2012 |Ship homeport=GisborneHMNZS Resolution – Navy Today, Defence Public Relations Unit, Issue 133, 8 June, Page 30 |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship fate=Sold into civilian service |Ship status= |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship career |Ship country=Hong Kong |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Hong Kong|civil}} |Ship owner=EGS Group |Ship name=RV Geo Resolution |Ship namesake= |Ship acquired=11 October 2014 |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship homeport=Hong Kong |Ship identification=*{{IMO Number|8835243}}
|Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship status=In service |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Ship class=Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship |Ship displacement=2,262 tonnes |Ship length={{convert|68|m|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|13|m|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship draught={{convert|4.4|m|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship propulsion=*Four Caterpillar D398B diesel generators 3,200 hp (2.4 MW)
|Ship speed={{convert|11|kn}} |Ship range={{convert|21500|nmi}} |Ship complement=*41 (7 officers, 34 ratings)
|Ship boats=(SMB) Adventure |Ship sensors= |Ship armament= |Ship notes= }} |
HMNZS Resolution (A14) was a hydrographic ship of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). Originally the United States Naval Ship USNS Tenacious (T-AGOS-17), the Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship was used by the United States to locate and track Soviet submarines from 1989 to 1997, when she was transferred to the RNZN for use as a hydrographic survey ship. She served until 27 April 2012. She was subsequently sold to EGS Group, a private surveying company, and renamed RV Geo Resolution.
Construction
The ship's construction contract was awarded 20 February 1987 to VT Halter Marine, Inc. of Moss Point, Mississippi, under then name Intrepid. Her keel was laid down 26 February 1988, she was launched 17 February 1989 and commissioned as USNS Tenacious on 29 September 1989. The renaming was prompted by protests from veterans of the Essex-class aircraft carrier {{USS|Intrepid|CV-11|6}}, who felt that the surveillance ship was not a fitting vessel to carry on the carrier's name.[http://news.usni.org/2013/04/23/twenty-six-us-navy-ship-naming-controversies USNI News:Twenty Six US Navy Ship Naming Controversies]
Operational history
=United States=
File:USNS Tenacious (T-AGOS-17).jpg, Pearl Harbor, in 1991]]
During the Cold War, Ocean Surveillance Ships patrolled the world's oceans searching for Soviet Navy submarines. Data was collected using the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS), consisting of listening devices and electronic equipment that transmit the acoustic data via satellite to shore for analysis. SURTASS is a linear array of {{convert|8575|ft|m}} deployed on a {{convert|6000|ft|m|adj=on}} tow cable and neutrally buoyant. The array could operate at depths between {{convert|500|and|1500|ft|m}}.
Tenacious was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and sold to New Zealand on 6 February 1997.
=New Zealand=
On commissioning into the RNZN on 13 February 1997, the ship was renamed HMNZS Resolution, after the sailing sloop {{HMS|Resolution|1771|6}}, used by James Cook during his second and third voyages of exploration, in recognition of the extensive hydrographic survey work done by Cook. Resolution replaced HMNZ Ships {{HMNZS|Tui|1970|2}} and {{HMNZS|Monowai|A06|2}} as the navy's primary survey and acoustic research vessel. She undertook various marine survey tasks, including for the Land Information New Zealand agency. SMB Adventure was operated by Resolution as a tender and survey motor boat.
Resolution sponsored a scholarship for under-privileged high school students to participate in a 10-day passage on the sail training ship Spirit of New Zealand. On occasion, university and high school students were embarked aboard Resolution as part of the 'Students at Sea' programme.
On 22 February 2011, Resolution was underway off Christchurch when the 2011 Canterbury earthquake occurred. NZ Navy Today said later : '..the feeling onboard was that the engines had been set in full astern with associated shuddering and shaking. It was only when a dust cloud over Christchurch was observed and chatter on VHF soon alerted the bridge team of the enormity of the disaster. With Captain Dean McDougall (CTU 654.0.1, Captain Fleet Operational Support) in an established headquarters on HMNZS Canterbury in Lyttelton, Resolution reported for duty and was subsequently called in to conduct a hydrographic confidence survey of the main channel into the Port of Lyttelton.S/Lt Dave Jaquiery, 'End of an Era,' Navy Today, April–May 2012, 12.
Resolution was decommissioned at Devonport Naval Base on 27 April 2012.{{cite press release |author= |title="Bon Voyage Wellington" - Last Visit from HMNZS Resolution |url=http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/news/media-releases/2012/20120402-bvwlvfhr.htm |publisher=New Zealand Defence Fore |date=2 April 2012 |accessdate=6 January 2015}} She was subsequently sold to EGS Group, a private surveying company, and renamed RV Geo Resolution. Following the sale she left Devonport Naval Base for the final time on 11 October 2014.{{cite news |title=Resolution Sold, Departs Devonport |url=http://www.navy.mil.nz/downloads/pdf/navy-today/nt184.pdf |accessdate=27 November 2014 |work=Navy Today |issue=184 |publisher=Royal New Zealand Navy |date=November 2014 |page=23}}
See also
References
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External links
{{commons category|IMO 8835243}}
- {{Naval Vessel Register URL|id=AGOS17|title=United States Naval Vessel Register AGOS17}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061230183322/http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/6617.htm NavSource]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150106095730/http://resolutionforsale.com/ Resolution For Sale] – Auckland Shipbrokers webpage advertising the sale of the ship
{{Stalwart class ocean surveillance ship}}
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Category:Ships built in Moss Point, Mississippi
Category:Research vessels of New Zealand
Category:Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy