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HMNZS Resolution (A-14)
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HMNZS Resolution (A14) is the hydrographic ship of the Royal New Zealand Navy
Royal New Zealand Navy
The Royal New Zealand Navy is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force...
(RNZN). Originally the United States Naval Ship
United States Naval Ship
United States Naval Ship or USNS is the prefix designation given to non-commissioned ships that are property of the United States Navy.-Overview:...
USNS Tenacious (T-AGOS-17), the Stalwart class ocean surveillance ship was used by the United States to locate and track Soviet submarines from 1989 to 1997, when she was transferred to the RNZN for use as a hydrographic survey ship.
Construction
The ship's construction contract was awarded 20 February 1987 to Halter Marine, Inc of Moss Point, MississippiMoss Point, Mississippi
Moss Point is a city, north of Pascagoula, in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 17,653 at the 2000 census.On August 29, 2005, Moss Point was hit by the strong east side of Hurricane Katrina, and much of Moss Point was flooded or destroyed .-Geography:Moss Point is...
, under then name Intrepid. Her keel was laid down 26 February 1988, she was launched 17 February 1989 and commissioned as USNS Tenacious on 29 September 1989.
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Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
, Ocean Surveillance Ships patrolled the world's oceans searching for Soviet Navy
Soviet Navy
The Soviet Navy was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean...
submarines. Their data was collected using the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System
Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System
The AN/UQQ-2 Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System is a towed array sonar system of the United States Navy.SURTASS began as development program in 1973 using the new research vessel Moana Wave. In 1980 SURTASS passed OPEVAL...
(SURTASS), consisting of listening devices and electronic equipment that transmit the acoustic
Acoustics
Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics...
data via satellite to shore for analysis. SURTASS is a linear array of 8575 feet (2,613.7 m) deployed on a 6000 feet (1,828.8 m) tow cable and neutrally buoyant. The array can operate at depths between 500 and 1500 ft (152.4 and 457.2 m).
Tenacious was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register
Naval Vessel Register
The Naval Vessel Register is the official inventory of ships and service craft in custody of or titled by the United States Navy. It contains information on ships and service craft that make up the official inventory of the Navy from the time a vessel is authorized through its life cycle and...
and sold to New Zealand on 6 February 1997.
New Zealand
HMNZS Resolution replaced HMNZ Ships TuiHMNZS Tui (1970)
HMNZS Tui, formerly USNS Charles H. Davis , was one of nine Conrad class oceanographic ships built for the United States Navy , that later saw service in the Royal New Zealand Navy...
and Monowai
HMNZS Monowai (A06)
HMNZS Monowai was a hydrographic survey vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy from when she was commissioned in 1977 until 1997.-Construction and acquisition:...
as the Navy's primary Survey and Acoustic Research Vessel. She undertakes various marine survey tasks, including for the Land Information New Zealand
Land Information New Zealand
Land Information New Zealand is a New Zealand government agency. The current Chief Executive is Colin MacDonald and the current Minister of Land Information is Maurice Williamson.- Nature and scope of functions :...
agency.
She is named after the sailing vessel HMS Resolution
HMS Resolution
Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Resolution. However, the first English warship to bear the name Resolution was actually the first rate Prince Royal , which was renamed Resolution in 1650 following the inauguration of the Commonwealth, and continued to bear that name until...
, used by Captain James Cook, RN, during his second and third voyages to New Zealand between 1772 and 1779, thus recognising the extensive hydrographic survey
Hydrographic survey
Hydrographic survey is the science of measurement and description of features which affect maritime navigation, marine construction, dredging, offshore oil exploration/drilling and related disciplines. Strong emphasis is placed on soundings, shorelines, tides, currents, sea floor and submerged...
work Cook and his team completed.
HMNZS Resolution also provides a scholarship for under-privileged high school students to participate in a 10 day passage on the Spirit of New Zealand, and sometimes embarks university and high school students as part of the 'Students at Sea' program.
The inshore Survey Motor Boat
Survey motor boat
A survey motor boat , is a vessel equipped for commercial and/or military hydrographic survey operations.-References:*...
(SMB) Adventure
SMB Adventure
SMB Adventure is an inshore Survey Motor Boat of the Royal New Zealand Navy and part of the Navy's Deployable Hydrographic Unit. She is not a commissioned ship, and is usually transported on and operated as a tender from . Adventure is capable of independent operations and short coastal...
is operated as a tender from HMNZS Resolution.