HMS Taiaroa

HMS Taiaroa was a colonial service Defender-class torpedo boat designed by Thornycroft & Company for the defence of New Zealand. She was named after Te Matenga Taiaroa, a 19th-century Māori chief of the Ngāi Tahu iwi. She was built at Chiswick in 1883 and shipped to New Zealand, where she was assigned to the defence of Port Chalmers.

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1883  Wikidata
torpedo boat, Defender-class torpedo boat, Royal Navy, John I. Thornycroft & Company, 

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1883 HMS Taiaroa

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ship commissioning

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ship launching

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Frameless

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