Otago Had just fired a salvo of 6 live Limbo mortar bombsDirectly ahead and was “hard a starboard” to avoid running over the top of them. A second salvo was to be fired immediately but when the bombs were beingloaded the ones from the PortMagazine ran back in to theHandling room and so the secondContinue reading “HMNZS Otago – I was on the bridge when photo taken. Description courtesy of Jim Blackburn – also onboard. The photo was taken at 1128 on Monday 29 October 1962.”
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New Zealand Opens New Military Base in Greymouth
New Zealand has inaugurated a new Reserve Operating Base in Greymouth on the South Island to “re-establish” its military presence in the region. The installation houses communications equipment, storage facilities, and utility vehicles on the West Coast. In addition, the site supports a 25-person Local Emergency Response Group to assist troops during states of emergency. The facilityContinue reading “New Zealand Opens New Military Base in Greymouth”
HMNZS ROYALIST – Guam
HMNZS Waikato had deployed to Pearl Harbor for work up with USN fleet units and performed well in RIMPAC and exercises with the US and Canadian fleet. During these exercises Commander Bradley, positioned Waikato to land a USN Sea King about to be lost with zero fuel.
Some crew believed the frigate and its personnel were endangered by landing a large chopper never before tested upon Leanders and the order was officially noted. However, on the last day of the Falklands War a British Leander, Minerva, landed a Sea King helicopter.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMNZS_Waikato_(F55)
HMNZS Waikato (F55) was a Leander Batch 2TA frigate of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN).
She was one of two Leanders built for the RNZN, the other being the Batch 3 HMNZS Canterbury. These two New Zealand ships relieved British ships of the Armilla patrol during the Falklands conflict, freeing British ships for deployment.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMNZS_Waikato_(F55)
