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Cookie the cat-commander He is the infrequent wanderer of the North Yard section of the Devonport Naval Base and the unofficial mascot for the Royal New Zealand Navy.

SUPPLIED Cookie purr-patrols the Naval Base in Devonport. The New Zealand Defence Force does not know who the ginger cat belongs to but he has been named Cookie by some military personnel. Cookie is known to hang around the Recruit Training School and shows his supawwt to new recruits. He is often seen around theContinue reading “Cookie the cat-commander He is the infrequent wanderer of the North Yard section of the Devonport Naval Base and the unofficial mascot for the Royal New Zealand Navy.”

Nuclear veterans’ advocate and renowned artist dies. RIP Roy Sefton

Jimmy Ellingham 08:52, Jan 06 2021 Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Comments1 DAVID UNWIN/STUFF Roy Sefton, who has died aged 82, displays his medals for Stuff in 2016. The last medal on the right of the top line is his medal for nuclear test veterans. A creative mind and determined spirit is being remembered for hisContinue reading “Nuclear veterans’ advocate and renowned artist dies. RIP Roy Sefton”

HMS Puriri Memorial The memorial to the five seamen lost their lives when the navy minesweeper HMS Puriri was sunk north-east of Bream Head, Whangarei on 14 May 1941. The memorial was dedicated in 2011 on the 70th anniversary of the sinking.

  HMS Puriri was a converted 927-ton Anchor Company coaster that was commissioned into the 25th Minesweeping Flotilla on 19 April 1941. It was operating with another minesweeper, HMS Gale, off Bream Head in the northern approaches to the Hauraki Gulf when it struck a German contact mine, part of a 228-mine barrage laid onContinue reading “HMS Puriri Memorial The memorial to the five seamen lost their lives when the navy minesweeper HMS Puriri was sunk north-east of Bream Head, Whangarei on 14 May 1941. The memorial was dedicated in 2011 on the 70th anniversary of the sinking.”

HMS Puriri (T02) was a coastal cargo boat which was requisitioned by the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) and converted into a minesweeper. She was sunk by a German mine 25 days after she was commissioned.

  Operational history Puriri was owned by the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company. She was one of four ships requisitioned as a consequence of the German auxiliary cruiser Orion’s minefield and the loss of the liner Niagara, the others being Matai, Gale and Rata. Puriri was taken over on 20 November 1940 and handed toContinue reading “HMS Puriri (T02) was a coastal cargo boat which was requisitioned by the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) and converted into a minesweeper. She was sunk by a German mine 25 days after she was commissioned.”