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Topic: HMS New Zealand (1911)

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	NEW ZEALAND'S MONARCHY
		New Zealand Cabinet Ministers, and Court of Appeal judges are customarily appointed to the Privy Council, and the latter are entitled to sit on the Judicial Committee to hear appeals from New Zealand and elsewhere.
		As the coat of arms of the New Zealand Government is not that of the Queen, she continues to use the Royal Arms in New Zealand, and members of the Royal Family use their own arms, which are variations of the Royal Arms.
		The officer is New Zealand Deputy to Garter King of Arms, and is the representative in New Zealand of the College of Arms.
	www.geocities.com /cox_nz/factsheet1.htm (6449 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (G-O)
		News of the Russian mobilisation reached Berlin on the 31st of July and Germany demanded that the Russian mobilisation should cease, and asked France for a notification by 1 p.m.
		Like HMS Courageous, HMS Glorious was completed in 1917 as a fast cruiser for use in the Great War in the Baltic, but by the 1920s with Britain wanting to increase her aircraft carrier strength she was converted to an aircraft carrier, as was HMS Courageous.
		HMS Wasp was a British steam gunboat, which was lost in September 1887 while on a passage from Singapore to Hong-Kong.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/F4.HTM (15666 words)

	New Zealand winners of the Victoria Cross
		Bassett was a corporal in the New Zealand Divisional Signals Company, and was one of the signallers in support of the attack by NZ, Gurkha and British soldiers on Chunuk Bair Ridge, Gallipoli.
		A sergeant in the 2nd Otago Battalion of the New Zealand Division, won the Victoria Cross during the Somme Battle in World War One, on 15 September 1916, and died in action a fortnight later.
		He was recalled in 1939 and was invited by the NZ government to command the New Zealand Division in the Middle East in November.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-medals/nz-vc-winners.htm (3899 words)

	HMS Falcon - Bibliography of Royal Navy River Gunboats in China
		Guernsey was assigned to HMS Cricket while she was in England in 1920 and one chapter of the work describes the harrowing 15,000 mile journey made by Cricket to China (she was convoyed with HMS Cockchafer, HMS Moth, HMS Mantis and HMS Scarab during the trip).
		This excellent work was published by the New Zealand Historical Society and briefly recounts the sinking of HMS Peterel and the subsequent internment of the Peterel's commanding officer, Lieutenant Stephen Polkinghorn.
		There is also quite a bit about a Royal Navy minesweeper, HMS Aries (out of the blue, the author was sent to Toronto, Canada to participate in her construction and then served on her clearing mines all over the Mediterranean).
	www.hmsfalcon.com /bib/bib.htm (3287 words)

	thePeerage.com - Exhibit
		The Bank of New Zealand, however, refused to accept liability for the bloated J. Ward Farmers' Association account, and the association was soon in receivership.
		Ward's new cabinet was less able and was faced with increasing agitation from the rural sector for which 'freehold' had become a catchcry.
		There was a bitter edge to his political comments as he denounced the Protestant Political Association of New Zealand for its part in his defeat, and the New Zealand Labour Party for its ingratitude for his efforts on behalf of the workers over the years.
	www.thepeerage.com /e7.htm (4391 words)

	Indefatigable Class
		HMS New Zealand joined HMS Indefatigable at the Battle of Jutland where the latter was hit by shells from Von Der Tann and sank so quickly that only 2 crew could be rescued.
		HMS Australia collided with HMS Repulse and after repair the former was released from the Grand Fleet and returned to Australia where she was eventually stricken and scuttled on April 12 1924.
		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 /indefatigable_class.htm (1011 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		She and her family were tightly bound together by the tragedies of Melbourne, their Catholic faith in a predominantly Protestant region, and their burning ambition to succeed in New Zealand.
		His market-place skills were never more obvious to his parliamentary colleagues than during the tariff debates of 1888; and his cogent arguments for restructuring New Zealand's mail shipping contracts, delivered at a speed that taxed Hansard reporters, showed that he was often a step or two ahead of ministers of the day.
		He hastened back to New Zealand and was sworn into office as prime minister on 6 August 1906.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=2W9 (4382 words)

	Voyage Reports, Accounts, Diaries & Journals
		The emigration of 800 British Nonconformists to the new colony of Albertland, in New Zealand.
		Illustrated London News article and picture, depicting the departure from London of the Ganges and Tweed with a large party of emigrants from the East-End Emigration club, bound to Quebec in 1870.
		She was sailing from Gravesend to New Zealand with 429 emigrants and 43 crew.
	www.theshipslist.com /accounts/index.htm (1114 words)

	HMS New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first New Zealand was a battleship launched in 1904, renamed Zealandia in 1911 to free the name for the new battlecruiser, and sold in 1921
		The second New Zealand was a battlecruiser paid for by the Dominion of New Zealand and launched in 1911, which saw in the Falklands and the Jutland.
		A 45,000 ton Malta class aircraft carrier was to have been the third New Zealand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_New_Zealand (190 words)

	Royal Navy Battleships
		Sunk in collision with HMS Camperdown, 22 Jun 1893.
		22 Jun 1893.HMS Victoria sunk by collision with HMS Camperdown.
		10 December 1941:HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers near Singapore.
	home.att.net /~wellsbrothers/Battleships/RNBBtable.html (1177 words)

	Scoop: Maxim Institute - real issues - No 212
		New Zealand had a "wallet rating" of 83 percent and we are second in the CPI ranking.
		New Zealand's relationship with our traditional allies has been strained in recent years, but a new overture from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) could signal a thaw.
		Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan are all being considered as possible partners to cooperate with some NATO missions, including joint exercises, training, peacekeeping and stabilisation missions.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PO0607/S00057.htm (1754 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Frederick Sturdee
		Despite an early setback at the start of the war that might easily have brought an early end to his war career, he was afforded a second chance that, by great fortune, worked to his advantage.
		Born into a naval family at Kent on 9 June 1859 the eldest son of Captain Frederick Sturdee, Frederick Sturdee was educated at the Royal Naval School at New Cross before entering the Britannia as a cadet at the age of 12 in July 1871.
		In 1911 he chaired the Admiralty submarine committee before, in 1912, being given command of cruiser squadrons as the Senior Cruiser Admiral in the home fleet.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/sturdee.htm (1004 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - General Information (I-N)
		The Imperial Crown was made for King George V for his coronation as King Emperor at Delhi in 1911, and is part of the British Crown Jewels.
		New players are expected to join a game and deduce the rules of play by observation, trial and error.
		It instituted the first training ship on the Thames in 1786, HMS Warspite which was burned in 1876 where upon the boys were removed to the Conqueror.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/A7.HTM (15098 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot - Colonial Navies Of Early Australia
		This was the paddle-steamer HMS Driver, which en route from Hong Kong to New Zealand, had called to replenish her bunkers before sailing for Auckland.
		On 25 March 1859 Captain William Loring of HMS Iris was authorised to hoist a Commodore’s Blue Pendant and to assume command as senior officer of Her Majesty’s Ships on the Australian Station independently of the Commander-in-Chief in India.
		The discovery of gold in New South Wales and Victoria in 1851 saw amazing population shifts from the cities to the hinterland.
	www.gunplot.net /colonialnavy/colonialnavy1.html (3388 words)

	The New Zealand Maritime Record - NZNMM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		She was given up for lost until finally reaching New Guinea, however her good luck was not to last and she eventually succumbed to an Austrian submarine.
		However, as the Maunganui of 1911, her first career had been as a trans-Tasman liner for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
		During the New Year's Day Regatta of 1907 she was beached on Quail Island.
	www.nzmaritime.co.nz (1863 words)

	My Home Page
		Transcribed in Auckland New Zealand by Ted WILDY on September24, 1995.
		The Bombay seldom had a fair chance when trading to New Zealand of showing what she was capable of doing, as on nearly all the voyages out she had the ill-luck to strike furious storms, either in the Channel or later.
		The Bennett's were original settlers for the new settlement of Inglewood inland from New Plymouth.
	www.angelfire.com /nd/domneal/cantell.html (1073 words)

	Scoop: A Nation's Gift - The HMS New Zealand Story
		A new exhibition which opened at the Navy Museum last night tells the story of HMS New Zealand, the first battleship specifically paid for by the Government of New Zealand.
		The exhibition tells the stories of HMS New Zealand and her crew, some including facets of New Zealand's early social history and connections with the Maori people.
		The tale of HMS New Zealand's piupiu is a highlight of the exhibition.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PO0612/S00017.htm (941 words)

	King Edward VII Class Battleship - HMS Africa, Britannia, Commonwealth, Dominion, Hibernia, Hindustan, New Zealand
		After several very similar looking classes the King Edward VII class were quite distinctive with their larger close set funnels and the turrets for the 9.2 inch guns at the corners of the superstructure.
		HMS New Zealand (renamed Zealandia 1 December 1911)
		Although designed as all coal burning ships during construction the class (except HMS New Zealand) were fitted with oil and oil sprayers, the first British to be fitted.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /pre-dreadnought/hms-king-edward-vii.html (723 words)

	Bermuda's History from 1900 to 1999
		In September, a hurricane caused the steamer Pollokshields to be wrecked on the reefs of the South Shore.
		She was captured off western Africa, towed to Bermuda and hidden, with no news of its capture until the end of the war in Europe on May 7, 1945.
		The Wooding Commission saw a need for a “a new and true understanding, a deep conviction of the essentiality of building a single community, providing common opportunities for all and an unyielding commitment to promoting the democratic values of equality and fraternity in a society that is free in every respect”.
	www.bermuda-online.org /history1900-1999.htm (16090 words)

	Bean Rock
		One of only two wave washed lighthouses in New Zealand, (the other Ponui Passage no longer stands), Bean Rock stands on a group of rocks opposite North Head at the entrance to Waitemata harbour, Auckland.
		Fisher aboard the HMS Herald with assistance from P. Bean the master of the vessel, after which Bean Rock is named.
		The local maori named the rock "Te Toka a Kapetawa" and the legend is that a chief named Tara marooned his brother-in-law there.
	www.newzealandlighthouses.com /bean_rock.htm (346 words)

	HONOUR ROLL of Crew of AE1 - NEW GUINEA EXPEDITIONARY FORCE - Sep 1914. HONOUR ROLL of Crew of AE2 lost in ...
		They are all entitled to receive the ANZAC (Gallipoli) Medallion awarded by the Australian Government in 1967 to all Australian and New Zealand Service men and women who served in the Gallipoli Campaign, all RAN who served off the coast of ANZAC Cove and those who served on the island of Lemnos.
		He was next appointed to HMS EGMONT for submarines on 14th August 1911, for one of the three ‘B’ Class submarines which formed the Malta Flotilla at that time.
		He emigrated to New Zealand in the 1930s and was reported as killed in an earthquake in 1945.
	www.angelfire.com /alt2/nominalrolls.html/ngef.1914.html (8551 words)

	Indefatigable Battlecruiser - HMS Indefatigable, New Zealand, HMAS Australia
		The secondary armament was an improved version of 4 inch gun and none were mounted on the turret roofs.
		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.
		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)

	Ships Maritime By Topic History Society
		News and ObserverHe beat polio, joined Marines and found bliss in a small worldNews & Observer, NC - 29 minutes ago...
		- History of HMS Bounty (today's ship and the original), her crew, romances aboard the ship and the mandate of the Society for Bounty's Future.
		- Information and news on the replica of Captain James Cook's famous ship, as she is circumnavigates the globe.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Society/History/By_Topic/Maritime/Ships (1841 words)

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		The medal has been won by British servicemen in NZ during the New Zealand Wars, and by New Zealanders serving in the South African War, and World Wars One and Two.
		BASSETT, Cyril Royston Guyton (1892-1983), b.Auckland Bassett was the first New Zealander to win the Victoria Cross in World War One.
		McKENNA, Colour-Sergeant The Alexandra Redoubt (Tuakau) was attacked by the Ngati Maniapoto in 1863, and defended by the 65th Regiment, a member of which, Colour-Sergeant McKenna, earned the Victoria Cross for bravery during the battle.
	www.geocities.com /wlorac/nzvcross.txt (3020 words)

	Janus: The Papers of Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee
		He was a student in the torpedo school HMS Vernon, 1882-5, and then served as a torpedo officer in HMS Bellerophon on the North American and West Indies Station, 1885-9.
		He was on the staff of HMS Vernon, 1889-93, and gained extensive experience of torpedo boats.
		He commanded HMS Porpoise on the Australian Station, 1897-9, and took command of the British force in Samoa, 1899, during hostilities between Germany and the United States.
	janus.lib.cam.ac.uk /db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0014/SDEE (593 words)

	Naval Campaigns Club - Jutland Scenarios
		Within minutes HMS Pelican and HMS Petard were raising battle ensigns and leaning into the heavy seas in response to the signal 'Enemy in Sight'.
		Second, the British large light cruisers HMS Courageous and HMS Glorious are also missing, since they're not in the database either.
		HMS Glorious and HMS Courageous are also AWOL again, replaced by HMS New Zealand and HMS Australia.
	www.navalcampaigns.org /scenarios_jutland.htm (8292 words)

	HMAS Australia (1912-1924)
		She was twice rammed, firstly on 22 April 1916 by HMS New Zealand.
		This led to her missing the Battle of Jutland which, considering the disastrous losses in the Battle-cruiser Force, may well have been fortunate.
		She was rammed again by HMS Repulse in December 1917.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/australia.htm (306 words)

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	www.neh.gov /news/report2000/research.html (5467 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I shall never forget the first sight of this magnificent ship; although she was covered with the grime of the dockyard, I felt a catch in my throat as I said, ‘What a wonderful ship!’ I stood gazing at her full length, nearly 700 foot long with a beam of 90ft 6ins.
		But I must record for all her goodness she was unlucky in some respects; she was a ship that had many fatal accidents occurring in her and a few suicides." HMS Tiger at Bay by Victor Hayward at page 49.
		The barbettes for A, Q, and X turrets are hollow all of the way to the base and there is a large opening in which the 01 deck fits.
	www.steelnavy.com /CombrigTiger.htm (4243 words)

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