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SS Thomas Currell was a Strath-class trawler built for the United Kingdom for use as a fishing trawler.She was purchased by Sanford Ltd in 1921 for use in New Zealand.She would be used as a minesweeper during World War II, and is currently wrecked at Port Hutt, Chatham Island.
The larger and newer trawlers and whalers were converted for antisubmarine use and the older and smaller trawlers were converted to minesweepers. [1] Armed trawlers were also used to defend fishing groups from enemy aircraft or submarines. The smallest civilian trawlers were converted to danlayers.
Junella was a fishing trawler, best known for her service with the Royal Navy (as mine countermeasures vessel HMS Junella) during the Falklands War. She was built in 1975 for J Marr & Son, a Hull-based fishing company. On 11 April 1982 she was taken up from trade by the British government and commissioned into the Royal Navy.
Evans Deakin & Company (Brisbane, Queensland) Small naval vessels, trawlers, steamers, bulk carriers, tankers, tugs (1940–1971) Forgacs Group (Newcastle, New South Wales) Formerly known as Carrington Slipways. Naval vessels, ferries. (1957–2014) Green Point Naval Boatyard Green Point, Mortlake, New South Wales (1940s)
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HMNZS Tawhai was a New Zealand-built composite Castle-class trawler built for the Royal New Zealand Navy during World War II for the intention for use as a minesweeper, later being converted into a fishing trawler.
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In 1946, she was sold to the National Mortgage and Agency Company, being renamed to Taiaroa, and was converted into a fishing trawler, and would operate at Dunedin. [2] [3] She would be sold to New Zealand Fisheries LTD in 1952. [4] Later that year on 28 July 1952, a man was found dead on the deck of Taiaroa, having fallen head first.