LÉ Gobnait
HMNZS Pukaki at Queens Wharf, Wellington | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | |
| Name | HMNZS Pukaki |
| Namesake | Lake Pukaki |
| Builder | Tenix Defence, Whangārei |
| Launched | 6 May 2008 |
| Christened | 10 May 2008 |
| Stricken | 17 October 2019 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Sold to the Irish Naval Service |
| Ireland | |
| Name | LÉ Gobnait |
| Namesake | Gobnait |
| Cost | €13 million (2022) |
| Acquired | 13 March 2022 |
| Identification |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Lake-class inshore patrol vessel |
| Displacement | 340 t (335 long tons) loaded |
| Length | 55 m (180 ft 5 in) |
| Beam | 9 m (29 ft 6 in) |
| Draught | 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km) |
LÉ Gobnait ([ˈɡɔbˠnˠətʲ], GUB-nət) is a Lake-class inshore patrol vessel inshore patrol boat of the Irish Naval Service. Launched as HMNZS Pukaki in 2008, the vessel was in Royal New Zealand Navy service from 2009 to 2019. Its primary duties included border and fisheries protection patrols, surveillance, boarding operations and search and rescue response. It was sold to Ireland in 2022. Together with its sister Rotoiti, Pukaki was renamed and commissioned into Irish service in September 2024.