French vessel pays goodwill visit

French navy patrol vessel La Moqueuse will be open to the public today before sailing home. Photo...
French navy patrol vessel La Moqueuse will be open to the public today before sailing home. Photo by Linda Robertson.
The French navy patrol vessel La Moqueuse berthed at Dunedin's Birch St wharf yesterday.

The 54m-long vessel, with a crew of 35, was in Dunedin as part of a two-port goodwill tour of New Zealand, after an earlier stop in Auckland.

The vessel's civilian agent, Dave Flower, of Empire Logistics in Australia, said the crew planned to visit Dunedin's tourist attractions while in port.

The vessel would be open to the public today, from 10am to 2pm, before sailing for its home port of Noumea, New Caledonia, on Sunday.

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