{"id":309715,"date":"2026-03-02T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309715\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:17:12","slug":"charges-laid-over-sinking-of-hmnzs-manawanui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309715\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges laid over sinking of HMNZS Manawanui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Manawanui ran aground in Samoa in October. Photo: Profile Boats \/ supplied\" class=\"media-element file-odt-landscape-large-4-3 img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manawanui_sinking.png\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Manawanui ran aground in Samoa in October 2024. Photo: Profile Boats \/ supplied<\/p>\n<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>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>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>The New Zealand Defence Force would not comment before legal proceedings begin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/588412\/naval-officers-face-charges-over-sinking-of-hmnzs-manawanui\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rnz010126.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manawanui ran aground in Samoa in October 2024. Photo: Profile Boats \/ supplied Charges have been laid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-309715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}