{"id":137775,"date":"2024-10-08T11:57:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T01:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=137775"},"modified":"2024-10-08T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T01:57:43","slug":"100m-navy-ship-runs-aground-catches-fire-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=137775","title":{"rendered":"$100M Navy Ship runs aground, catches fire, sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The country of New Zealand\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/07\/world\/new-zealand-navy-ship-sinks-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lost its first navy vessel since World War II<\/a>\u00a0after the HMNZS Manawanui &#8211; a $100 million survey and dive vessel commissioned in 2018 &#8211; ran aground, burst into flames, and sank off the coast of Samoa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commanding officer was Commander Yvonne Gray, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzdf.mil.nz\/media-centre\/news\/yorkshire-woman-takes-command-of-royal-new-zealand-navy-ship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brit who moved to New Zealand<\/a>\u00a0in 2012 and joined the NZ Navy after taking a vacation to the country with her wife. She had previously served with the British Navy since 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddff Video of the New Zealand Navy\u2019s survey and salvage ship, HMNZS Manawanui, after running aground off Samoa.<br><br>She\u2019s likely a total loss, leaving the Royal New Zealand Navy with just 5 fully operational ships.<br><br>\ud83d\udcdd This is the first peacetime loss of a Royal New Zealand Navy\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1aSHr9f9wT\">pic.twitter.com\/1aSHr9f9wT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Anonymous Patriot (@0331online) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0331online\/status\/1843101360201330987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, after the crash, the entire crew was rescued overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commanding officer was Commander Yvonne Gray, a\u00a0Brit who moved to New Zealand\u00a0in 2012 and joined the NZ Navy after taking a vacation to the country with her wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":137776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,2789],"tags":[13792,13793,13794],"class_list":["post-137775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-nz","tag-nz-navy","tag-samoa","tag-sinking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137777,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137775\/revisions\/137777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}