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  A Defender-class torpedo boat, clearly showing the spar torpedo History United Kingdom Name: HMS Taiaroa Ordered: 26 August 1882[1] Builder: John I. Thornycroft & Company Cost: £12,600 for four boats Yard number: 169[1] Launched: 10 August 1883[1] Commissioned: 19 September 1883[1] Fate: Broken up General characteristics Class and type: Defender-class torpedo boat Displacement: 12Continue reading “HMS Taiaroa (1883)”

USS Brooklyn (ACR-3) in Waitematā Harbour during a visit to New Zealand. 26 May 1901 http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aucklandcity.govt.nz%2Fdbtw-wpd%2FHeritageImages%2Findex.htm&AC=QBE_QUERY&TN=heritageimages&QF0=ID&NP=2&RF=HIORecordSearch&MR=5&QI0=%3D%221-W568%22http://dlvr.it/S0tMQ0

Taken in 1963 an unbroken white expanse of the frozen sea. In the far distance through the crystal-clear air, there is the volcanic outline of Mt Discovery, and the snow-capped peaks of the Transantarctic Mountains. The New Zealand ship Endeavour II, a fleet oiler, is being towed into frozen McMurdo Sound behind the powerful USContinue reading “HMNZS Endeavour ll and US Icebreaker Edisto”

  HMNZS Endeavour (A184)/USS Namakagon (AOG-53) was a Patapsco-class gasoline tanker built for the United States Navy during World War II. In some sources, the ship’s name is also spelled Namakogon. After her decommissioning from the U.S. Navy in 1957, the former Namakagon served as Antarctic supply vessel HMNZS Endeavour (A814) for the Royal NewContinue reading “HMNZS Endeavour 2 (A184)/USS Namakagon (AOG-53)”