The New Zealand defence minister says the environmental clean-up is her top priority after the sinking of the HMS Manawanui.

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

The New Zealand commander of a stricken navy ship that hit a reef and sank off the coast of Samoa has thanked rescue crews on ...

Ron Mark says the project to convert the vessel had "astonished our partners": "No one anticipated that she'd hit a reef." ...

The New Zealand commander of a stricken navy ship that hit a reef and sank off the coast of Samoa has thanked rescue crews on ...

A sunken 5700-tonne Navy vessel poses serious environmental risks for the pristine reef it ran aground on off the coast of ...

The Navy ship HMNZS Manawanui has sunk off the coast of Samoa after running aground on a reef. The 75 passengers and crew ...

The HMNZS Manawanui ran aground on Saturday night before capsizing on Sunday morning. All 75 people on board the vessel were ...

Royal New Zealand Navy hydrographic dive and survey ship HMNZS Manawanui (A09) sank on Sunday after running aground off the ...

A search for answers over the sinking of the HMNZS Manawanui - off Samoa's southern coast. The $100 million naval ship was ...

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 ...

Manawanui, a specialist dive and hydrographic vessel, ran aground near the southern coast of Upolu as it was conducting a reef survey.