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ODDS ARE, THAT’S AN IRONIC NICKNAME Posted on March 8, 2021

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.

 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.”

While watching Emirates Team New Zealand and their amazing foiling vessel, and the ad filmed at Kaiaua I decided to post some photos of the hulk in the background, HMNZS Hinau

HMNZS Hinau being launched The first of the 12 minesweepers to be built in New Zealand was launched in Aug 1941 by Mrs D G Sullivan at Auckland. HMNZS HINAU, built in Auckland in 1942 was a composite minesweeper fitted for magnetic mines. The design was based on the WWI Castle Class trawlers. Displacement ofContinue reading “While watching Emirates Team New Zealand and their amazing foiling vessel, and the ad filmed at Kaiaua I decided to post some photos of the hulk in the background, HMNZS Hinau”