Two ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) have been named HMNZS Wakakura:
, transferred to the RNZN in 1941, was a minesweeper. She served for New Zealand in the Second World War. Sold and converted to a merchant ship in 1947, becoming the SS Wakakura , commissioned in 1985, was a , decommissioned in 2007