Wednesday, March 4, 2026

New Zealand Navy grounding update

I posted about this 15 months ago. Midwest Chick has an update:

The New Zealand navy was so proud and happy to have a lesbian from Britain come on board that they gave her a $100M survey and dive vessel, which she crashed and sank.

The lesbian “diversity hire” captain of a Royal New Zealand Navy ship that ran aground and sank off Samoa has been charged with negligence along with two other officers over the loss of the vessel.

The $100 million HMNZS Manawanui, which was under the command of UK-born homosexual Yvonne Gray, crashed on the south side of Upolu on October 5, 2024, due to human error including failure to turn off autopilot, an inquiry found last year.

This is the official inquiry report which is leading to Commander Gray's Courts Martial.  Obviously the entirety of His Majesty's New Zealand Navy is a bunch of dirty misogynists ...

Midwest Chick adds this tidbit that I had missed:

This isn’t the first time that a NZ naval diversity hire damaged a ship. It happened in 2024 with a different female captain.

And that’s what happens when you choose diversity over competence. Wonder if the New Zealanders will actually learn from this??

Now maybe our own Navy could do something about our (multiple) female commanders who run into ships on the high seas. 

 

7 comments:

Phuc Dims said...

The error will be attributed to subordinates I'll wager.

KurtP said...

Aside from the DEI crap in command of that ship(unless it was involved in the planning and building stage)- WHY was a multi-million Dollar ship equipped with a cruise control that couldn't be overridden without turning it off?

Skyler the Weird said...

Jasmine. Your home warranty has expired. Please call me for an extension.

rickn8or said...

Phil B over at Midwest Chick comments has a good run-down on what happened and why.
https://midwestchick.com/2026/03/03/new-zealand-had-a-100m-loss-due-to-dei/

danielbarger said...

DEI refuses to die. We haven't been the last screw up occurring simply because a position or rank was handed out based on something other than competence.

rickn8or said...

*cough* Palisadesfire *cough*

B said...

As New Zealander was heard to say:

"We have plenty of incompetent lesbians in our navy, why did we need to import one from England?"