{"id":16821,"date":"2026-03-03T04:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16821"},"modified":"2026-03-03T04:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:43:59","slug":"naval-officers-face-charges-over-sinking-of-hmnzs-manawanui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16821","title":{"rendered":"Naval officers face charges over sinking of HMNZS Manawanui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charges have been laid in relation to the loss of Royal New Zealand Navy vessel HMNZS Manawanui, off the coast of Samoa in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Three naval officers face a court martial.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel sank off the coast of Samoa after hitting a reef, spilling hundreds of thousands of litres of diesel and oil into the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>One officer faces a charge of negligently causing a ship to be lost and a second faces a charge of negligently permitting a ship to be lost.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty, negligently causing a ship to be lost carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--W1Unag28--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1728161777\/4KIQR69_461841802_526566676644382_1575537299845186046_n_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"The HMNZS Manawanui, aground in Samoa.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">The HMNZS Manawanui, aground in Samoa.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Profile Boats \/ supplied<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A third officer faces a charge of negligently permitting a ship to be lost, or in the alternative, negligently failing to perform a duty. In addition, the third officer faces a charge of negligently failing to perform a duty.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the defence force said the date and location of the court martial were yet to be set.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charges have been laid in relation to the loss of Royal New Zealand Navy vessel HMNZS Manawanui, off the coast of Samoa in October 2024. Three naval officers face a court martial. The vessel sank off the coast of Samoa after hitting a reef, spilling hundreds of thousands of litres of diesel and oil into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16823,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821\/revisions\/16823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}