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Ryan Anderson11:43, Mar 09 2021 Facebook Twitter Reddit Email NZDF/SUPPLIED Royal New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Canterbury with Raoul Island in the background, taken during the re-supply mission in 2018. A Navy crew is heading to remote Raoul Island, in the Kermadec Islands, to check in on the weather and tsunami warning systems there. TsunamiContinue reading “Navy ship (HMNZS Canterbury) heads to remote Raoul Island to check tsunami warning systems”

  HMNZS Wellington (P55) The ship was built by Tenix as part of the New Zealand government’s Royal New Zealand Navy plans,[1] and was originally expected to enter service during the winter of 2008. However, in late 2008, it became known that the vessel was considered “sub-standard”, and did not fulfill a number of specifications,Continue reading “HMNZS Wellington (P55) is a Protector-class offshore patrol vessel in the Royal New Zealand Navy.”

Sergent Len “Happy” Knox, 2nd New Zealand Division, 2NZEF, cleans an old-school .455-caliber break action Webley revolver Maadi Camp, near Cairo, Egypt, around 1940-41. Alan Blow Album PH-ALB-497, Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum / Tāmaki Paenga Hira 2NZEF would spend all of WWII under the British Eighth Army, seeing the elephant in Greece andContinue reading “ODDS ARE, THAT’S AN IRONIC NICKNAME Posted on March 8, 2021”

 HMNZS Hinau (P3556) was a Moa-class inshore patrol vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy. It was commissioned in 1985 for the Naval Volunteer Reserve and decommissioned in 2007. Hinau is the second ship with this name to serve in the Royal New Zealand Navy. The name comes from a forest tree which is nativeContinue reading “HMNZS Hinau (P3556) was a Moa-class inshore patrol vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy. It was commissioned in 1985 for the Naval Volunteer Reserve and decommissioned in 2007.”