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Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Delivery of the Navy's new inshore patrol vessels has been arranged with contractor BAE Systems, says Defence Minister Wayne Mapp.

HMNZS Rotoiti, the first of the four new IPVs, is scheduled to be handed over on 16 April and commissioned on 17 April at Whangarei. It will sail to the Devonport Naval Base in Auckland on 24 April. The other three are expected to be delivered by the end of May.

"Delivery of the Project Protector ships has been the Government's highest Defence priority since taking office," Dr Mapp said.

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