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Ships with New Zealand connections – HMS Driver was a Driver-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy. She is credited with the first global circumnavigation by a steamship when she arrived back in England on 14 May 1847

She embarked for the East Indies and China in March 1842. She served some time in China (losing her original commanding officer) before being ordered to New Zealand in September 1845. She was damaged by a storm en route, necessitating repairs to her engine and boiler and other parts of the ship.[3] During her circumnavigationContinue reading “Ships with New Zealand connections – HMS Driver was a Driver-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy. She is credited with the first global circumnavigation by a steamship when she arrived back in England on 14 May 1847”

USS Wichita, a unique 8 in ‘heavy’ variant of the Brooklyn class light cruisers: she saw distinguished WW2 service, including in 1942 as an Arctic convoy escort (notably to the ill fated PQ17) and at the Operation Torch landings in North Africa; thereafter in the Pacific, notably at the battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944.

USS Wichita, a unique 8 in ‘heavy’ variant of the Brooklyn class light cruisers: she saw distinguished WW2 service, including in 1942 as an Arctic convoy escort (notably to the ill fated PQ17) and at the Operation Torch landings in North Africa; thereafter in the Pacific, notably at the battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944.Continue reading “USS Wichita, a unique 8 in ‘heavy’ variant of the Brooklyn class light cruisers: she saw distinguished WW2 service, including in 1942 as an Arctic convoy escort (notably to the ill fated PQ17) and at the Operation Torch landings in North Africa; thereafter in the Pacific, notably at the battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944.”