Melanie Huata-Lucas, 32, becomes the first Māori woman in the Royal New Zealand Navy to have a moko kauae, an ancestral marking on a woman’s chin. NZ Herald By: Te Rina Triponel, Māori Affairs Reporter Melanie Huata-Lucas – who last year became the first representative of the Royal New Zealand Navy to have a moko kauaeContinue reading “Māori woman first Royal NZ Navy representative to have moko kauae 6 Feb, 2021 05:10 AM 3 minutes”
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Motorcyclist defies odds to wake from four-week coma after ‘horrific’ crash – Michael “Hooky” Walker’. Walker is an engineer at the Trustpower Lake Coleridge power station and served in the Royal New Zealand Navy. He was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1996.
Jonathan Guildford 05:00, Feb 05 2021 Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Play Unmute Current Time 2:14 / Duration 2:53 Loaded: 100.00% Fullscreen STACY SQUIRES Michael “Hooky” Walker was left with 50 fractures after crashing his motorbike. After a month in coma, he is now on the slow road to recovery at his home in Lake Coleridge. A quickContinue reading “Motorcyclist defies odds to wake from four-week coma after ‘horrific’ crash – Michael “Hooky” Walker’. Walker is an engineer at the Trustpower Lake Coleridge power station and served in the Royal New Zealand Navy. He was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1996.”
Nelson man takes the bridge of HMNZS Taupo Tim O’Connell 11:11, Feb 04 2021
Facebook Twitter Reddit Email SUPPLIED Nelson man Lieutenant Fletcher Slierendrecht has been given command of his first vessel, HMNZS Taupo, seven years after joining the Royal New Zealand Navy. Fletcher Slierendrecht was unsure of what direction his life would take once he left the school gates of Nayland College in Stoke. Now known to hisContinue reading “Nelson man takes the bridge of HMNZS Taupo Tim O’Connell 11:11, Feb 04 2021”
Falmouth naval officer Adam Coles hunts Baltic mines on HMS Echo – An exchange appointment with the Royal New Zealand Navy followed in 2009 where he embarked in both HMNZS Resolution and HMNZS Canterbury to conduct commercial and military hydrographic surveys across New Zealand and the South Pacific. A career highlight was leading a Rapid Environment Assessment and Harbour Survey to reopen the commercially strategic Port of Lyttleton after the disastrous Christchurch earthquake in 2011.
By David Barnicoat Commander Adam Coles (inset) has been hunting historic minues on HMS Echo. Main picture: Lee Hemmings; inset: Royal Navy 1 comment Falmouth naval officer Commander Adam Coles has been on deployment to the Baltic in his ship HMS Echo, operating with a Lithuanian naval vessel having strong links with this port. Adam, who livesContinue reading “Falmouth naval officer Adam Coles hunts Baltic mines on HMS Echo – An exchange appointment with the Royal New Zealand Navy followed in 2009 where he embarked in both HMNZS Resolution and HMNZS Canterbury to conduct commercial and military hydrographic surveys across New Zealand and the South Pacific. A career highlight was leading a Rapid Environment Assessment and Harbour Survey to reopen the commercially strategic Port of Lyttleton after the disastrous Christchurch earthquake in 2011.”
Jo Brook has flown all the way from Dunedin into the history books. The 27-year-old Dunedin woman has just graduated as New Zealand’s first female navy helicopter pilot, an achievement she hopes will inspire other young women to consider a career in the Defence Force.
By Daisy Hudson 4212 6 News Dunedin Lieutenant Jo Brook, from Dunedin, is New Zealand’s first female navy pilot. PHOTO: NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE FORCE Jo Brook has flown all the way from Dunedin into the history books. The 27-year-old Dunedin woman has just graduated as New Zealand’s first female navy helicopter pilot, an achievement she hopesContinue reading “Jo Brook has flown all the way from Dunedin into the history books. The 27-year-old Dunedin woman has just graduated as New Zealand’s first female navy helicopter pilot, an achievement she hopes will inspire other young women to consider a career in the Defence Force.”
