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	Royal New Zealand Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The passing of the Naval Defence Act 1913 created the New Zealand Naval Forces, however this was still as a part of the Royal Navy, and from 1921 to 1941 the force was known as the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.
		HMNZS Leander escorted the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to the Middle East in 1940, and was then deployed in the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, where she was subjected to air and naval attack from Axis forces, conducted bombardments and escorted convoys.
		Resolution is used to survey and chart the sea around New Zealand and her inshore waters, and was formerly used by the United States Navy(as USNS Tenacious) to tow sonar arrays to detect enemy submarines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_New_Zealand_Navy (2906 words)

	New Zealand (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS New Zealand, flagship of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe at the Battle of Jutland.
		Zeeland is the anglicised name for the Dutch province Zeeland (Sealand) after which the country New Zealand is named.
		Captain James Cook subsequently called the archipelago New Zealand (a slight corruption, as Zealand is not an alternative spelling of Zeeland, a province in the Netherlands, but of Sjælland, the largest island of Denmark, which includes Copenhagen).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_(disambiguation) (156 words)

	New Zealand - Memory Alpha
		New Zealand was a nation-state composed of a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean on Earth.
		The native inhabitants of New Zealand were known as the Maori.
		New Zealand was covered by rain forests similar to the forests found on the planet Dakala.
	www.memory-alpha.org /en/index.php/New_Zealand (264 words)

	Everything about New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The population of New Zealand is mostly of European descent, with the indigenous Māori as the largest minority.
		New Zealand was involved in a Constitutional Convention in March 1891 in Sydney, New South Wales, along with the then-colonies of Australia.
		Australia's neighbouring countries are Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the northeast, and New Zealand to the southeast.
	wikimiki.org /en/New+Zealand (10659 words)

	Royal New Zealand Air Force Association
		New elementary flying schools and aeroplanes were to be established in NZ with a proposed annual output of 700 pilots and 730 observers and air gunners.
		New Zealand Fighter Wing pilots had 99 confirmed destroyed and 24 probably destroyed Japanese aircraft to their credit, the highest score reached by the fighters.
		New Zealand's Defence Policy of the 1950s was tied to the protection of the UK and Commonwealth interests.
	rnzaf.homestead.com /hist.html (4230 words)

	New Zealand and the First World War - Overview - NZHistory.net.nz
		New Zealanders were conscious that defeat for the British Empire might lead to a settlement in which their country's sovereignty could be compromised or extinguished.
		New Zealand troops took part in the Gallipoli campaign before being sent to the Western Front, while a mounted rifles brigade participated in the Sinai-Palestine campaign.
		New Zealand, then, played a small but useful part in the British Empire's war effort, and its essential war aim was achieved with the defeat of Germany and its allies in late 1918.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /war/ww1-overview (1995 words)

	WW1 History of New Zealand (NZ)
		New Zealand was involved in the First World War by the King's declaration of war.
		The total number of New Zealand troops and nurses to serve overseas in 1914-18, excluding those in British and other Dominion forces, was more than 100,000, from a population of just under a million.
		New Zealand had no air force of her own during the First World War but several hundred New Zealanders served with the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-nz/nz-ww1-history.htm (581 words)

	20th century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clockwise from top: Trenches in frontline, a British Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks and a Sopwith Camel biplane.
		Rising nationalism and increasing national awareness were among the causes of World War I, the first of two wars to involve all the major world powers including Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the United States and the Commonwealth of Nations.
		The Beatles, a 1960s British Rock and Roll band, becomes one of the most successful acts of all time, and is credited, in their experimental later albums, with permanently changing what was thought possible in popular music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/20th_century (1938 words)

	New Zealand Army 1939-41
		New Zealand's contribution to the Commonwealth war effort began with the decision taken on 6 September 1939 to mobilize a Special Force of three battalions from each of the three military districts.
		In New Zealand, the 14th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, NZA (41st, 42nd, 43rd Light AA Batteries) was raised in 1941 and moved to Egypt with the 5th Reinforcements on 7 April 1941.
		The New Zealand Territorial Force was not idle during the period from 3 September 1939 until Japan's entry into the war on 7 December 1941.
	home.adelphia.net /~dryan67/orders/nz.html (1225 words)

	HMS Orpheus - New Zealand Disasters - Kids - Christchurch City Libraries
		On 7 February, 1863, the HMS Orpheus was only miles from her destination port of Auckland.
		There were differences between the powers of the New Zealand authorities and those of the Royal Navy, who refused to let any of its officers be blamed.
		The Orpheus shipwreck is still New Zealand's worst shipwreck, in which the greatest number of people died.
	library.christchurch.org.nz /Kids/NZDisasters/HMS_Orpheus.asp (571 words)

	NZDF - NAVY WELCOMES HOME HISTORIC PIUPIU
		HMS NEW ZEALAND was paid for by the people of New Zealand and took part in three major North Sea battles in World War I, including the Battle of Jutland.
		The piupiu will be welcomed back to New Zealand at a short ceremony to be held at Te Taua Moana Marae in the form of a powhiri, karakia and blessing.
		As Ruth Halsey’s wish was for the piupiu to be returned to New Zealand, after she died in April 2002, her nephew (Halsey’s grandson) John Wood, offered it to the New Zealand Navy Museum.
	www.nzdf.mil.nz /news/media-releases/20050706-nwhhp.htm (598 words)

	RNZN - History
		By the 1830s RN warships were being sent to New Zealand in an effort to maintain law and order amongst Europeans and between Maori and Pakeha.
		Events during the Crimean War generated the recognition of New Zealand's vulnerability to surprise raids by enemy cruisers, and in 1860 a Naval Artillery Volunteer Corps with responsibility for harbour defence was established.
		HMS PHILOMEL, an elderly 3rd class cruiser, was the first ship commissioned into the New Zealand Naval Forces, but she was placed under Admiralty operational control when WWI began in 1914.
	www.navy.mil.nz /know-your-navy/history/default.htm (940 words)

	Great White Fleet in Auckland New Zealand
		New Zealand and Australia were terrified of Japanese advance.
		New Zealand's response was different, deciding in 1909 to contribute a battle cruiser to the British Home Fleet - HMS New Zealand.
		New Zealand was more influenced by the USA then than is sometimes realised today.
	100megsfree3.com /glaw/gwf (928 words)

	HMS NEW ZEALAND - Crossing the Line Ceremony 1919 - Details of Ships Co
		THERE was something of a flutter in the Court several months ago, when news first came that Admiral Viscount Jellicoe was voyaging round the world to investigate and advise on matters naval; and, after breakfast that morning, His Majesty discussed at length the naval situation.
		Then He wandered away into merry reminiscences of the first time the battle-cruiser, which New Zealand had so generously and wisely presented to His beloved contemporary, King George, had crossed the Line, and remarked with regret that there were so few of His old friends still in her.
		On Tuesday, the sixth day of May, the outlying scouts sent information to the Secretary of State that H.M.S. " New Zealand " had left Colombo an hour short of noon the previous day, having put in there for 1780 tons of coal, and was steering a south-easterly course towards the Cocos Islands.
	www.pbenyon.plus.com /NZ_Xross_Line/P02.html (686 words)

	Longstaff Family 1790-2001
		Noble King was born on 25 August 1884 in Inglewood, Taranaki, New Zealand, died on 26 June 1939 in New Plymouth Hospital, New Plymouth, New Zealand and was buried on 28 June 1939 in Inglewood, Taranaki, New Zealand.
		Ruby Dorothy Gwendolyn Crabb was born on 13 February 1886 in Greatford, Marton, New Zealand, died on 30 November 1951 in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand and was buried on 03 December 1951 in Taita Cemetery, Lower Hutt, New Zealand Plot #391.
		Issac was born on 10 October 1882 in Kumara, Westland, New Zealand, died on 13 October 1966 in 30 Wakeman Street, Pahiatua, Wairarapa, New Zealand and was buried on 15 October 1966 in Pahiatua, Wairarapa, New Zealand.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /ryangenealogy/longstafftree.html (6417 words)

	Indefatigable Battlecruiser - HMS Indefatigable, New Zealand, HMAS Australia
		The last two ships, Australia and New Zealand, were funded by those respective countries and started at a time when the British themselves were building the much superior Lion class.
		22 April 1916 collided with HMS New Zealand.
		HMS New Zealand which was a gift to the Royal Navy and served in the North Sea throughout the war.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /battlecruiser/hms-indefatigable.html (578 words)

	New Zealand Navy
		HMS New Zealand was also hit by a 11-inch shell which hit X turret without any major damage or \casualties.
		New Zealand had two sister ships of the class HMS Australia and HMS Indefatigable.
		The New Zealand was taken on a cruise of the Dominions in 1913 before joining the 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron, she then served with the Grand Fleet in 1914 before becoming flagship to the 2nd cruiser squadron in 1915.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /new_zealand_navy.htm (1145 words)

	‘For King and Country’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At Devonport naval barracks (HMS Vivid) Stanley Hillier started gunnery instruction and early in November 1916, was drafted to the battle cruiser HMS New Zealand at Rosyth Naval Base, Scotland.
		One of four ships to make up the First Battle Cruiser Squadron, New Zealand (paid for and donated by the Dominion for which she was named) had by then distinguished herself in such engagements as Heligoland, August 1914, Dogger Bank, January 1915, and Jutland, May 1916.
		Naval historian Henry Newbolt explained that on the morning of November 17, the First Battle Cruiser Squadron, reinforced by HMS New Zealand, was to “sweep across the North Sea to a point about half-way across the outer edge of the quadrant of mines in the Heligoland Bight.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /great_war/articles/fkac.html (1821 words)

	Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He saw action in the Boer War during the siege of Ladysmith and was later made Captain of the battle cruiser, HMS New Zealand.
		A year later the First World War broke out and when HMS New Zealand took part in the Battle of Heligoland Bight of August 1914, Halsey honoured his promise and donned the Maori costume.
		Halsey was promoted to Captain of the Fleet and was on the bridge of HMS Iron Duke at the Battle of Jutland for which he was made Companion of The Order of The Bath.
	www.dacorumheritage.org.uk /ww1-halsey.htm (267 words)

	HMS NELSON BATTLESHIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HMS DUKE OF YORK 1940 KING GEORGE V CLASS
		HMS KING GEORGE V 1939 KING GEORGE V CLASS
		HMS SIR THOMAS PICTON 1915 LORD CLIVE CLASS
	www.homestead.com /nelson1/BRITISHBATTLESHIPS.html (77 words)

	Fish4fun, Florida fishing & boating news, regulations
		The new mission for the IGFA is the theme of this book; conservation, education, science, history and IGFA rule-making elements appear in several feature articles and departments.
		Under the new legislation, along with broadening membership of the councils, those with direct financial ties to specific decisions would be required to abstain from voting on them.
		The new HMS angling permit completes a process NOAA Fisheries initiated several years ago to separate commercial and recreational fishing activities for Atlantic highly migratory species.
	www.fish4fun.com /news.htm (5674 words)

	HMS Lion
		HMS King George V, HMS Ajax, HMS Centurion, HMS Conqueror, HMS Erin, HMS Monarch, HMS Orion, HMS Thunderer.
		HMS Lion at the Battle of Jutland by Ivan Berryman.
		HMS Lion with her sister ship HMS Princess Royal are shown firing on the German High Seas Fleet which can be seen in the distance during the Battle of Jutland.
	www.military-art.com /dhm1002.htm (885 words)

	WWW-VL: History Index: New Zealand History: Maori, Christ
		New Zealand's Participation in the South African ('Boer') War 1899-1902
		The Young and the Restless: Children and Adolescents in New Zealand 1930-—196
		New Zealand literature in the 1940s and 1950s
	vlib.iue.it /history/oceania/NewZealand (873 words)

	NZSG Conservation and Restoration
		HMS New Zealand was New Zealand’s first and only capital ship, paid for by public subscription then broken up under the Washington Treaty after approximately ten years service.
		The 4inch Noble Guns are assumed to be ex HMS NEW ZEALAND removed prior being scrapped about 1923 in the same manner as guns (3 and 6 pdrs and 2 pdr Vickers Maxim) were removed from HMNZS Philomel.
		Hintz Lt "HMNZS PHILOMEL A History of the Training and Depot ship of the Royal New Zealand Navy." Wilson and Horton Auckland 1944 pp38.
	www.gunsmithsociety.com /four-inch-noble.htm (786 words)

	Operation Telic: Statement 11 April
		As the pattern of coalition operations in Iraq changes, it will be possible for a number of units to proceed with other tasking or return to the United Kingdom.
		HMS Marlborough and HMS Liverpool together with RFA Grey Rover have been released from operations in the Middle East and will now proceed to the Far East.
		On current plans, HMS Ark Royal with elements of her Group will shortly leave the Joint Operations Area and start their return passage to the UK.
	www.operations.mod.uk /telic/statement_sofs_11april.htm (398 words)

	TAYLOR, Thomas Edward - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		Thomas Edward Taylor was born in Lincolnshire, England, of working-class parents, and emigrated with them and three sisters to New Zealand in 1873.
		Re-elected to Parliament in 1902 he became leader of the New Liberals, a left-wing group pledged to expedite social reform and to expose Seddon's alleged maladministration.
		Their son, E. Taylor, was appointed New Zealand Ambassador to Japan in 1961.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/T/TaylorThomasEdward/TaylorThomasEdward/en (704 words)

	WAITANGI, TREATY OF - Preliminaries - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		But the Colonial Office had no desire to intervene in New Zealand affairs and was anxious to leave it as a field for missionary enterprise free from the problems of large-scale white settlement.
		In effect, if sovereignty were to be extended over part, or the whole of New Zealand, the British Government held that it must come from a treaty based on the free will and consent of the Maori people, and not from any right of discovery, occupation, or conquest.
		He reached Sydney on 24 December and at once began discussions with Gipps on the all-important question of New Zealand sovereignty, and the problems arising from the irregular land purchases made by Sydney speculators, which had gone on in a fantastic manner.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/W/WaitangiTreatyOf/en (1163 words)

	ipedia.com: Internet Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		An evolutionary arms race between early snakes and mammals triggered the development of improved vision and large brains in primates, a radical new theory suggests.
		Tens of thousands of New Yorkers were still without power Friday, the fifth day of a mysterious electrical problem that has been blamed for subway delays, flight cancellations and dead air conditions during the hottest week of the year.
		Myanmar - Namibia - Nauru - Nepal - Netherlands - New Zealand -
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	KENT, John Rodolphus - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		No ship's captain better knew the New Zealand coasts in the 1820s and early 1830s, or was better known on those coasts, than John Rodolphus Kent.
		When Prince Regent was attached as tender to HM Storeships Dromedary and Coromandel during their New Zealand cruise in 1820, Kent examined many harbours in the kauri-growing area, his crossing of the Hokianga bar in late March marking the opening of that harbour to European shipping and trade.
		In 1823 and 1824 he made several exploratory flax-gathering cruises round the New Zealand coasts for the New South Wales Government in Mermaid and Elizabeth Henrietta, retaining command of the latter vessel until the end of 1825.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/K/KentJohnRodolphus/KentJohnRodolphus/en (655 words)

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