Its primary duties included border and fisheries protection patrols, surveillance, boarding operations and search and rescue response.

Subsequently the RNZN assessed them as no longer being suited to the heavy seas typically encountered off New Zealand and further afield.

Arriving in Ireland in May 2023,[4] they were delivered to the Irish naval base at Haulbowline in Cork Harbour where they underwent a refit.

[citation needed] Pukaki was renamed and commissioned into Irish service, as LÉ Gobnait, in September 2024.

[5][6][7] The vessel is primarily intended for fisheries protection patrols in the Irish Sea.