Devonport refit for new frigate
PA Auckland The Devonport Naval Dockyard is still short of skilled tradesmen for a major refit on the Navy’s new frigate Wellington. The superintendent of the dockyard, Captain G. F. Hopkins, said yesterday that marine welders were particularly scarce. “Quite a few, including some of our own dockyard people, have taken off to Marsden Point to work up there,” he said. The Leander class frigate berthed at the Navy base early yesterday. Its refit, due to take about 18 months, is
expected to employ up to 1100 workers. "It is a 13-year-old vessel which has never had a major refit,” Captain Hopkins said. Ships of its type normally get a major refit after eight years service. “We will put in extra fuel tanks, new electronics, a new weapons-control system and possibly retube the boilers,” he said. “We will probably do a lot of hull plating and replate some decks.” H.M.N.Z.S. Wellington will get sea-launch torpedo tubes which have never been fitted to it. Other New Zealand frigates have torpedo tubes.
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