HMS Chatham The ship was placed in reserve in 1918. After the war, Chatham was lent to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy from 1920 to 1924, and was sold for scrapping on 13 July 1926 to Thos W Ward, of Pembroke Dock. In 1922, the crew of Chatham donated a cupContinue reading “HMS Chatham (Also NZ Division of the Royal Navy) a Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She was the name ship of her sub-class of the Town class. The ship survived the First World War and was sold for scrap in 1928. After the war, Chatham was lent to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy from 1920 to 1924, and was sold for scrapping on 13 July 1926 to Thos W Ward, of Pembroke Dock.”
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HMNZS Canterbury (F421) was one of two broad beam Leander-class frigates operated by the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) from 1971 to 2005. She was built in Scotland and launched in 1970. Commissioned in 1971, Canterbury saw operational service in much of Australasia and other regions like the Persian Gulf.
She undertook operations such as supporting UN sanctions against Iraq and peace-keeping in East Timor. With her sister ship HMNZS Waikato she relieved the Royal Navy frigate HMS Amazon in the Indian Ocean during the Falklands War. Early in HMNZS Canterbury’s career she relieved the frigate HMNZS Otago at Moruroa during anti-nuclear protests, inContinue reading “HMNZS Canterbury (F421) was one of two broad beam Leander-class frigates operated by the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) from 1971 to 2005. She was built in Scotland and launched in 1970. Commissioned in 1971, Canterbury saw operational service in much of Australasia and other regions like the Persian Gulf.”
HMNZS Achilles was a Leander-class light cruiser which served with the Royal New Zealand Navy in the Second World War, the second of five in the class. Originally constructed by the Royal Navy, she was loaned to New Zealand in 1936 before formally joining the new Royal New Zealand Navy in 1941. She became famous for her part in the Battle of the River Plate, alongside HMS Ajax and HMS Exeter and notable for being the first Royal Navy cruiser to have fire control radar, with the installation of the New Zealand-made SS1 fire-control radar in June 1940.
HMNZS Achilles After Second World War service in the Atlantic and Pacific, she was returned to the Royal Navy. She was sold to the Indian Navy in 1948 and recommissioned as INS Delhi. She was scrapped in 1978. https://ift.tt/2qmuz7n from About RNZN, the Ships, the News and New Zealand Military https://ift.tt/3nxvv53 via IFTTT
HMNZS Muritai Minesweeper Converted merchant boat 1940-1946 Training and cable-lifting ship HMNZS Muritai, auxiliary minesweeper and anti-submarine patrol vessel, is the RNZN Ship Of The Week. The 462 ton Muritai was a Wellington harbour ferry built for Eastbourne Borough Council in 1922-23, and from a brief scan of some manuscript items in the Borough archives I gather people had warm summer excursions memories of her, in that way people tend to feel about tugboats and ferries,
HMNZS Muritai (T05) Muritai was commissioned as a minesweeper in 1940, operating out of Wellington, and was involved in a number of successful minesweeping operations with the local MS flotilla. There was an interruption in her war service in 1943 when she got entangled in the NZ Naval Board’s long search for a minelaying vessel,Continue reading “HMNZS Muritai Minesweeper Converted merchant boat 1940-1946 Training and cable-lifting ship HMNZS Muritai, auxiliary minesweeper and anti-submarine patrol vessel, is the RNZN Ship Of The Week. The 462 ton Muritai was a Wellington harbour ferry built for Eastbourne Borough Council in 1922-23, and from a brief scan of some manuscript items in the Borough archives I gather people had warm summer excursions memories of her, in that way people tend to feel about tugboats and ferries,”
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BY JAMES COOK: DISCOVERING THE WORLD
TOP NEWS Australia and New Zealand by James Cook: Discovering the World By Jackson Wheatly 2 hours ago April 29, 1770 Explorer James Cook discovered Botany Bay In Australia, Sydney was born soon after, so today we look back on the history of these journeys. The young James, the son of a Scottish farmer, immediately showed excellent skills andContinue reading “AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BY JAMES COOK: DISCOVERING THE WORLD”
