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HMS Taiaroa was a colonial service Defender-class torpedo boat designed by Thornycroft & Company for the defence of New Zealand. She was named after Te Matenga Taiaroa, a 19th-century Māori chief of the Ngāi Tahu iwi. She was built at Chiswick in 1883 and shipped to New Zealand, where she was assigned to the defence of Port Chalmers.
Abandoned at Purau Bay, Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand: Status: Preserved at the Lyttelton Torpedo Boat Museum: General characteristics; Class and type: Defender-class torpedo boat: Displacement: 12 tons: Length: 62 ft 10 in (19.15 m) Beam: 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) Installed power: 173 hp (129 kW) Propulsion: Two-cylinder compound-expansion steam ...
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The colonial service Defender-class torpedo boats were designed by Thornycroft & Company for the defence of New Zealand, built at Chiswick in 1883 and shipped to New Zealand. They were quickly obsolete and were left to deteriorate in situ. The remains of Defender are preserved at the Lyttelton Torpedo Boat Museum.
In 1846, five years after New Zealand was first proclaimed a colony, it bought its first gunboat. In the 1840s and 1850s, steam boats were used to survey the ports and the coastline. In the 1860s, New Zealand established the Waikato flotilla, its first de facto navy. By the late 19th century, New Zealand was using cruisers and torpedo boats.
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