HMNZS ''Maori'' (P3570) was a Fairmile B

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of the

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Originally commissioned on 20 December 1943 with

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''Q 409'', she was part of the 80th Motor Launch Flotilla. Early in 1944 she went to the

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where she served under the operational control of COMSOPAC. After the end of the war she was sold. In 1953 she was repurchased and recommissioned as HMNZS ''Maori'' (P3570). In 1963 she was sold again and became the

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ferry ''Iris Moana''.

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