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New Zealand's navy has insisted that a female captain's gender was not to blame for the sinking of a naval ship.  HMNZS Manawanui caught fire and later capsized after it ran aground one nautical mile from the Samoan island of Upolu on Saturday night while surveying a reef.  It was the first time New Zealand lost a military vessel since World War II. 

Vicious trolls have targeted the female New Zealand Navy captain whose $100million ship sank, forcing the country's Defence Minister to blast the 'armchair admirals' and publicly state the captain's gender was not to blame.

This is the moment a Royal New Zealand Navy vessel catches fire and sinks after running aground on coral reef off Samoa, leaving crew members on board shipwrecked. The New Zealand Defence Force said on Sunday the HMNZS Manawanui - New Zealand navy's specialist dive and hydrographic vessel - ran aground near the southern coast of Samoa's main island of Upolu on Saturday night. The 75 crew and passengers on board had been carrying out a tropical reef survey at the island nation before the vessel caught fire and sank on Sunday morning at 9am. Samoa fire commissioner Tanuvasa Petone said the ship erupted in flames before going down following a successful rescue mission - with all on board reported safe ashore, NZ Radio declared. Three of the 75 needed hospital treatment, he added.

HMNZS Manawanui, the Royal New Zealand Navy's specialist dive and hydrographic vessel was conducting a reef survey offshore from the Samoan island of Upolu's southern coast before it ran aground on Saturday. The vessel later capsized and was completely submerged by Sunday morning.