HMNZS Endeavour (1956)
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HMNZS Endeavour in Wellington Harbour, 15 December 1956
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Pretext |
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| Laid down: | 1 May 1943 |
| Launched: | 23 May 1944 |
| Completed: | 5 August 1944 |
| Acquired: | 5 August 1944 |
| Identification: | pennant number Z284 |
| Fate: | returned to U.S. Navy, 22 November 1945 |
 United States
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| Acquired: | 22 November 1945 |
| Struck: | 28 March 1946 |
| Fate: | transferred to the Maritime Commission, 3 April 1947, for disposal |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | RRS John Biscoe |
| Namesake: | John Biscoe |
| Owner: | Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey |
| Port of registry: | Port Stanley, Falkland Islands |
| Acquired: | 20 July 1947 |
| Christened: | 15 December 1947 |
| Renamed: | Pretext in April 1956 |
| Fate: | sold to New Zealand in August 1956 |
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New Zealand
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| Name: | HMNZS Endeavour |
| Namesake: | HM Bark Endeavour |
| Commissioned: | August 1956 |
| Decommissioned: | June 1962 |
 Canada
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| Name: | Arctic Endeavour |
| Owner: | Mayhaven Shipping Ltd. |
| Fate: | Foundered off Newfoundland on 11 Nov 1982 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Ailanthus-class net laying ship |
| Displacement: | 1,190 long tons (1,210 t) (full) |
| Length: | 194 ft 6 in (59.28 m) |
| Beam: | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Propulsion: | diesel electric, 2,500 hp (1,900 kW) |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h) |
| Complement: | 56 |
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HMNZS Endeavour was a Royal New Zealand Navy Antarctic support vessel. She was the first of three ships in the Royal New Zealand Navy to bear that name.
The ship was built in the United States in 1944 as Satinwood (YN-89) as a net tender of the Ailanthus class (but later redesignated as AN-76, a net layer) and transferred to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease in August 1944. Commissioned as HMS Pretext (Z284), she served the United Kingdom until she was returned to United States Navy custody in November 1945. Sold by the United States Maritime Commission in 1947, she served as a research vessel for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey under the name SV John Biscoe. She was briefly renamed Pretext when another ship was assigned the John Biscoe name, before being sold to the Royal New Zealand Navy, renamed Endeavour, and employed in supporting the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and subsequent New Zealand research activities in Antarctica. Sold again in 1962, the ship, renamed Arctic Endeavour for sealing work in the northern hemisphere, foundered off the coast of Canada in November 1982.
The ship was laid down as Satinwood (YN-89), a net tender of the Ailanthus class, on 1 May 1943 at the American Car and Foundry Co. in Wilmington, Delaware. On 17 January 1944, while still under construction, the ship was reclassified as a net laying ship and redesignated AN-76. Satinwood was launched on 23 May and completed on 5 August.
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