Talk:Royal New Zealand Navy

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No. of sailors
What is the total number of sailors / other people involved in the navy? 118.90.43.228 (talk) 10:51, 7 March 2008 (UTC)


 * added and cited. BlakJakNZ (talk) 09:12, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * no actual number ... but it is around 2000 - 2500 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2406:5A00:D868:5D00:CE0:C08D:9A4E:4A93 (talk) 10:53, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:NZ MRV (NZDF).jpg
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First maritime combat
The assertion that "The first maritime combat activities in New Zealand began with the arrival of the Māori in waka in the twelfth century AD." is vague and unsourced. Not only is their no agreed point of arrival of Polynesian settlers (not even to the nearest century) there is no evidence that maritime combat took place at that time, or even for some centuries after (if there is such a source for this it needs to be cited). This sentence should either be removed or at the very least rewritten to reflect the vagueness of the dates involved. (Talk Contribs) 07:28, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Protector class ?
So there are 2 "Protector class" vessels and another 4 completely different "Protector class" vessels. Now the normal concept of a "class", is for a group of identical or very similar vessels. Doesn't seem to be the case here.Eregli bob (talk) 05:53, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

They're two separate classes of vessel.As all 6 were acquired under project protector so carry the tag " protector class" but are referred to as either protector class ipv or protector class opv Warspite85 (talk) 10:21, 5 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Project Protector was the MRV HMNZS Canterbury, OPV's HMNZS Wellington and Otago, and the IPV's HMNZS Rotoiti, Hawea, Pukaki and Taupo so they all carry the tag. The OPV's are mainly called "Protector" class OPV's the IPV's are also commonly known as "Lake Class IPV's" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake-class_patrol_vessel which is a carryover from the older vessels they replaced.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.94.38.207 (talk) 23:07, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

The IPV's are Lake Class as per RNZN website: http://www.navy.mil.nz/mtf/rotoiti/default.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.69.162.8 (talk) 08:35, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Is there a lock on making minor changes ?
I added a new line showing  number of personnel from NZDF 2014 report. Doesnt show in main article ?

Is there a lock on making updates or some extra review step before it shows online in main article ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.58.33.138 (talk) 23:38, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

New Zealand Navy badge
I copied this comment from Foundation_wiki_feedback: WHY IS THE WIKIPEDA WEBPAGE ON THE ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY (TE TAUA MOANA O AOTEAROA )STILL SHOWNING THE INCORRECT BADGE, I HAVE ALREADY TOLD YOU TO UPDATE IT ASAP,YOU CAN FIND THE CORRECT RNZN BADGE ON HTTP: //WWW.HUBERT-HERALD.NL/NEW ZEALAND AF.HTM ,THIS A INSULT NOT ONLY TO THE NAVY,BUT TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW ZEALAND,RIKI CAVANAGH WELLINGTON NZ The listed link doesn't work as typed above. Here is the corrected link, and I believe this is the image they mean. NOTE: I have no idea what the correct badge is. I'm just blindly copying the comment for editors here to evaluate. Alsee (talk) 21:07, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The |current badge (recently added by Lord Comissar Britton on 20 Sep 15) does appear to be significantly different from that on the current RNZN page (see here ). Given the date on this image (1961) I'd assume it was an old badge, although I'm no expert on the Kiwi navy so I'm just guessing. Regardless, I've removed the image for now. Unsure if there is a version of the new badge available that complies with our policies so if someone else has one and wishes to add it I'll leave it up to them. Anotherclown (talk) 22:37, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

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