ID this Ship

A little help need – anyone able to name the NZ Navy ship in this 1930 photo ? location possibly near Kawau Island. Photo ex Roger Guthrie, those father Ivan & frien Dean Ellingham were in training at HMNZS Philomel at the time

Update from Russell Ward

Interesting one. Based on the disposition of the masts and the wheelhouse that overhangs the skipper’s accommodation and funnel height, she’d have to be HMNZS Wakakura or the Sanfords trawlers Currell or Cosgrove that were requisitioned in 1939 -notice she has the fishing trawler’s gallows fore and aft. Because of the raised focsle, I’d go for Wakakura. Jack Harker writes a lot about Wakakura in his book The Rockies. She was the navy’s training ship 1925 – 47 and certainly kept the marine repair shops busy with machinery and hull repairs -the latter mostly because of collisions with wharfs or other ships alongside. She was bought by the Tasman Steam Ship Co Ltd in 1947 and was knackered early 1953.

I have asked colleagues who know more than I and will report back if I am wrong.

16.08/2013 –  General consensus from the Workboat Study Group is that she is the Wakakura. Dear old thing. Got a lot of men sea experience ready for WW2. What sort of long range planning is that?

Update / critique from Ray Morey of the above photo – 16/08/2013

“That pic at Mansion House bay, The boat boom is up and the boat ladder is down.boat must be ashore. Bridge wings unclothed, popgun at the ready, monkey island awning ridge pole up but awning only rigged over the cargo boom.Possible party tonight. Trawl gallows in up position , provisioning boom stowed in crutch. All of those earlier ships had cantilevered bridges because the nets were hauled aboard there in the waist. The later vessels had single mast and davits aft for provisioning and workboat/lifeboat. I have another pic of her at the wharf in Auckland and also another of her with a full wheelhouse, the wings have been enclosed and roofed over”.