Ordered by the Admiralty, the vessel, named TR 1, was loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy for use on the East Coast of Canada. She was purchased by New Zealand in 1926 and transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy when it was established in 1941. She displaced 530 tons standard, could manage 10 knotsContinue reading “HMS/HMNZS WakakuraHMNZS Wakakura (T00) was originally a First World War Castle-class naval trawler built in Canada.”
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HMS Jupiter (F60) in Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand for the 1974 Commonwealth Games.
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View from the turret of a New Zealand M41 Walker Bulldog, likely at Waiouru Military Camp.
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No. 17 Squadron Kittyhawks take off from RNZAF Station Seagrove, 28 November 1942. See more on RNZAF Seagrove on blog – https://ift.tt/gkGn81Y
Aerial view of Seagrove Aerodrome, Manukau Harbour, Auckland Aerial view of Seagrove Aerodrome (Seagrove was an airport located by Clarks Beach on the south shoreline of Manukau Harbour, New Zealand, near the small town of Waiuku.) and surrounding countryside and coast, Manukau Harbour, Auckland. Photograph taken in 1946 by Whites Aviation. Seagrove Aerodrome was part of an RNZAF flying training stationContinue reading “No. 17 Squadron Kittyhawks take off from RNZAF Station Seagrove, 28 November 1942. See more on RNZAF Seagrove on blog – https://ift.tt/gkGn81Y”
HMNZS Taranaki (F148) in Lyttelton Harbour during an exercise with the New Zealand Fire Service, 3 April 1982.
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