A bit of RNZN history – see full post and photos here – https://rnznships.blogspot.com/ Mar. 15, 1950; HMAS SYDNEY [III] leads 11 RAN and RNZN ships into Waitemata Harbour, Auckland – Whites Aviation, ATL. 6870. Seven of the 11 ships involved in the Mar. 1950 Fleet Entry at Auckland are seen here itself, with HMAS SYDNEYContinue reading “Mar. 15, 1950; HMAS SYDNEY [III] leads 11 RAN and RNZN ships into Waitemata Harbour, Auckland”
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HMNZS Fairmile -ML401/Q401
Fairmile -ML401/Q401 Commissioned 20/12/43 Sold 1946-47. The 80th Flotilla consisted of MLs 401 to 406 – The flotillas were based at Renard Sound in the Russell Islands. ML 401 Built by Charles Bailey & Sons, renamed Mahurangi in ’47. Went to the Cook Islands for trading and was lost off Aitutaki February 1954. The Class B Fairmiles were 112 feet (34 m) long, displacedContinue reading “HMNZS Fairmile -ML401/Q401”
HMNZS Fairmile -ML401/Q401
Fairmile -ML401/Q401 Commissioned 20/12/43 Sold 1946-47. The 80th Flotilla consisted of MLs 401 to 406 – The flotillas were based at Renard Sound in the Russell Islands. ML 401 Built by Charles Bailey & Sons, renamed Mahurangi in ’47. Went to the Cook Islands for trading and was lost off Aitutaki February 1954. The Class B Fairmiles were 112 feet (34 m)Continue reading “HMNZS Fairmile -ML401/Q401”
Fairmile ML400/Q400
ML400/Q400 – was a Fairmile B class motor launch that came into service in November 1942 and was paid off in August 1945. Q 400 was damaged when the USS Serpens blew up off Guadalcanal on 29 January 1945.The two-page Summary of Findings [on the loss of USS Serpens] usually attached to the end ofContinue reading “Fairmile ML400/Q400”
Harrowing stories reveal decades of fallout for nuclear test veterans
Jimmy Ellingham05:00, Jun 12 2021 * * * * * 2 SUPPLIEDThe mushroom cloud of a nuclear bomb rises on the horizon, viewed from HMNZS Pukaki. More than 500 young Kiwi sailors were unwitting witnesses to British nuclear testing in the Pacific in the late 1950s. Jimmy Ellingham talks to three men who were there.Continue reading “Harrowing stories reveal decades of fallout for nuclear test veterans”
