LACHLAN’S REFIT
Platform For Helicopters
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, Feb. 11,
The survey ship, H.M.N.Z.S. Lachlan, will be fitted with a helicopter platform during a refit which will begin this month at the Devonport naval dockyard. The platform will be built above the existing quarterdeck and will measure 55ft by 30ft. The new platform will provide landing facilities for three types of helicopter—the Westland Wasp, the Bell Sioux, and the Hiller 12. Wasp helicopters will fly from the Navy’s new frigate Waikato when she comes into service, and the Bell Sioux is being flown by the Army. Helicopters will first, work from the Lachlan next year when the ship surveys the south-west of the South Island. A Hiller 12 craft will be used.
The Royal Navy survey ship Vidal has used helicopters for some years. They have proved useful for aerial survey photography and for landing surveyors and equipment in difficult terrain.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30983, 12 February 1966, Page 3
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152LACHLAN’S REFIT Press, Volume CV, Issue 30983, 12 February 1966, Page 3
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