The sinking of an oil-laden vessel has sparked fears of an environmental disaster The government of the Pacific island nation ...

The HMNZS Manawanui sailed from Devonport for the Southwest Pacific on Sept. 28, and was scheduled for activities in the ...

HMNZS Manawanui, New Zealand Navy's specialist dive and hydrographic vessel, sunk while conducting a reef survey near the ...

New Zealand’s navy lost its first ship since World War II after the HMNZS Manawanui sank on a reef off the coast of Samoa on ...

The Royal New Zealand Navy has lost its first ship to the sea since World War Two, after one of its vessels ran aground off the coast of Samoa. HMNZS Manawanui, a specialist diving and ocean imaging ...

A fuel spill is “highly probable” after a New Zealand navy ship grounded, caught fire and sank off the coast of Samoa, ...

A Samoan man said oil from the sunk HMNZS Manawanui was identifiable along the coast for several kilometres which would have ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has promised to do “everything it takes” to try to minimise the environmental damage from the sinking of the $100 million New Zealand naval sh ...

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Photo/ file Gisborne Herald HMNZS Manawanui, the navy ship that sank off the coast of Samoa at the weekend, and its crew, had ...

Residents in Samoa are concerned about what environmental damage from the disaster might mean for tourism and fishing.

An oil spill from a grounded New Zealand navy ship which sank and caught fire off the coast of Samoa is “highly probable”, ...