https://collection.maritimemuseum.co.nz/records/images/xlarge/18584/2e01e6ce6eea34dd7b5f309c12f91fd84c3b4b5f.jpg HMS Laburnum, Picton New Zealand ? 1933 The photograph shows HMS Laburnum, sister ship to HMS Veronica. The location is not identified. Underneath the image is written: H.M.S. Laburnum. Photographer, unknown. The photographer is possibly a member of the White-Parsons family as the album in which the image is glued belonged to them.Date, unknown.Continue reading “HMS Laburnum was a Royal Navy Acacia-class sloop built by Charles Connell and Company, Scotstoun.”
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HMS Diomede was a Danae class cruiser of the Royal Navy. Constructed at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, she was constructed too late to take part in World War I and was consequently completed at the Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth.
Capturefile: D:\glass neg raws\Allen C. Green Series\box 88\CC001681.061937.Capture.tifCaptureSN: CC001681.061937Software: Capture One PRO for Windows Between the wars, she served on the China Station, Pacific waters, East Indies Waters and from 1936 onwards, in reserve. In World War II she performed four years of arduous war duty, during which time she captured the German blockade runnerContinue reading “HMS Diomede was a Danae class cruiser of the Royal Navy. Constructed at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, she was constructed too late to take part in World War I and was consequently completed at the Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth.”
HMS Dunedin was a Danae-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy/NZ Div of RN, pennant number D93.
HMS DUNEDIN (1919) at Lyttelton, 4 Nov 1937 She was launched from the yards of Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne on 19 November 1918 and commissioned on 13 September 1919. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Dunedin (named after the capital of Scotland, generally Anglicised as Edinburgh). Service history[edit] In October 1920 she, with theContinue reading “HMS Dunedin was a Danae-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy/NZ Div of RN, pennant number D93.”
HMS Chatham was a Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She was the name ship of her sub-class of the Town class. The ship survived the First World War and was sold for scrap in 1926.
HMS CHATHAM 1923Lord Jellicoe’s inspection of Navy Personnel 1923.After the war, Chatham was lent to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy from 1920 to 1924. Capturefile: D:\glass neg raws\Allen C. Green Design and description The Chatham sub-class were slightly larger and improved versions of the preceding Weymouth sub-class.[1] They were 457 feet (139.3 m) long overall, with a beam of 49 feetContinue reading “HMS Chatham was a Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She was the name ship of her sub-class of the Town class. The ship survived the First World War and was sold for scrap in 1926.”
HMNZS Te Mana (F111) is one of ten Anzac-class frigates and one of two serving in the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN).
Op Crucible – HMNZS Te Mana Drone Photos The name Te Mana is Māori, approximately translating as ‘status’ or ‘authority’ (for further information on this term, see Mana). The ship was laid down under the joint Anzac project by Tenix Defence at Williamstown, Victoria in 1996, launched in 1997, and commissioned into the RNZN in 1999. In 2003 and 2004 and 2013–2014, Te Mana wasContinue reading “HMNZS Te Mana (F111) is one of ten Anzac-class frigates and one of two serving in the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN).”
