SECOND MINESWEEPER LAUNCHED
AUCKLAND CEREMONY (P.A.) AUCKLAND, September 9. A fortnight after the launching of the minesweeper Hinau. her sister ship, the Rimu, was sent down the slipway today after being christened with a bottle of New Zealand wine by Mrs Parry, wife of Commodore W. E. Parry, Chief of the Naval Staff. Like that of ’he Hinau, it was a nerfect launch, the stout steel and wooden vessel sliding slowly into the Waitemata, where she was picked up by a tug and towed to the fitting-out basin. A sprig of rata was at the bow and as the ship gathered speed down the greased ways the New Zealand Ensign, the Union Jack and the White Ensign were broken out aboard and cheers came from the large crowd.
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Southland Times, Issue 24536, 10 September 1941, Page 6
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