The Minister of Defence, Hon Max Bradford, this morning
announced the Government had agreed to deploy the Navy
tanker HMNZS Endeavour to Darwin.
Endeavour has just
completed nine days of exercising in Malaysian waters as the
sole tanker for ships participating in the Five Power
Defence Arrangement exercise STARDEX.
The tanker will
berth in Singapore today and will leave for Australia on
Monday as soon as fuel loading is completed.
HMNZS
Endeavour will support Australian, New Zealand and Royal
Navy ships already in the
region.
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