Deodar

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DEODAR

Mooching into Man o War Bay on Sunday I spied the 52′ Deodar at anchor, looking very smart. She was built by Millar & Tunnage in 1960 & is an ex Auckland Police launch.
In 1996 she was converted for pleasure use & recently underwent further work – more details & photos here https://waitematawoodys.com/2013/12/29/deodar/

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9 thoughts on “Deodar”

  1. Enjoyed looking back at this “Old Lady.” I was an electrical apprentice with Wm J, Parlour Ltd when she was launched and we had been given the job of replacing the original generators with the then brand new technology AC alternators. It was my job to design and fit the diode rectifiers into the original control box on the the port side engine room bulkhead. The new alternators would have been either Bosch or Scintilla, I don’t remember which, but Parlour’s were the agents for both. At the time all this was heady stuff, and the job was a success, pushing 60 amps into the batteries at idle speed. I well remember the crews dissatisfaction with the noisy Fodens, which they nicknamed the Screaming Fodens, which prevented them from sneaking quietly around the harbour at night after the “baddies.” I remember sitting up on the grass on Savage Memorial at night and hearing the Deodar 5 km away. Nice to see the upgrade the that has been done to her.

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  3. DEODAR (the name) is a species of Himalayan pine tree and was suggested by the then Minister of Police P G Connolly who during WW2,had commanded HMS DEODAR, a Tree-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy. Just a bit of useless trivia….

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  5. 2 Fodens in one engineroom would be more than enough, why inflict four on the poor boat. The twin or siamesed engine was supposedly rated at 480 shaft hp and were a copy of the “Bugatti-King aero engine.(in layout) The Deodar, and the patrol boats gave lawbreakers ample warning they were in the vicinity.

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  6. The Fodens were very unreliable i think someone got a big backhander for introducing them into the Navy. We had Grays 6 71s could go round N Z 4 times no problems Fodens you were lucky to get from port to port

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  8. Hi Ken she had mk 3 Fodens then mk 6 Fodens then 3208 cats never had 12 fodens. Those 12 Foden were only 2 HDMIs Paea and Mako

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  9. Many of us will remember her with nostalgia, in the “Lloyd McIntosh days” when Coastguard was all private launches,” & so many of us worked with Lloyd & his team, as I did with TIARRI, on SAR work, & it is really nice, that she is still more or less the same today, as then, even to the colour scheme.
    She was a slow old horse by todays standards, but boy, was she heavy & solid!!!I
    I had followed her engine history with some interest, & from recall she originally had 2 x 6 cyl Fodens, (which you could hear at Mansion House, as she came around North Head), followed by 12 cyl Fodens, followed by V8 Caterpillars, (have a photo of them somewhere, will try & look it out)which were replaced by 2 new Caterpillars around the time she was sold for private use. — Does anyone know if she still has these? — KEN R

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