HMS Maori

There have been two Royal Navy ships called HMS Maori after the indigenous people of New Zealand:

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HMS Maori (F24)

HMS Maori was a Tribal-class destroyer named after the indignous Māori people of New Zealand. She served with the Mediterranean Fleet until she was bombarded by German aircraft while at Malta in 1942 causing her to sink. Her wreck was later raised and scuttled outside the Grand Harbour, and it is now a dive site.

Service history

Maori was laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, at Govan in Scotland on 6 June 1936, launched on 2 September 1937 by Mrs. W. J. Jordan, the wife of the New Zealand High Commissioner William Jordan, and commissioned on 2 January 1939.

Maori joined HMS Cossack's division in January 1939 and joined the Mediterranean Fleet. She and the other Tribal-class destroyers did convoy escort duties, and Maori then returned to Britain in October. Until April 1940 she patrolled the North Sea and also took part in the Norwegian Campaign. In June she sailed to Iceland looking for German warships and also served briefly in the Faroe Islands.

HMS Maori (1909)

HMS Maori was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched in 1909 and sunk in 1915. During the First World War, she served in the North Sea and the English Channel with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla, being sunk by a mine in 1915 off Zeebrugge.

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