RNZAF‘s new P-8A Poseidon fleet has started working in a large-scale Pacific fisheries surveillance operation. Photo: RNZAF The Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) newest aircraft has been involved in a significant multinational fisheries surveillance operation for the Pacific’s Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA). Operation Island Chief was a 12-day operation covering 18.2 million square kilometres of FFA memberContinue reading “Pacific maritime fisheries surveillance covers 18.2 million sq kms -Whenuapai, New Zealand Thursday, August 24, 2023 – 23:09. Updated on Friday, August 25, 2023 – 09:34.”
Monthly Archives: August 2023
Fiji Hooker Sam Matavesi Awarded Royal Navy Promotion Ahead of England Clash at Twickenham
Fiji Hooker Sam Matavesi Awarded Royal Navy Promotion Ahead of England Clash at Twickenham RUGBY NEW Fiji Hooker Sam Matavesi Awarded Royal Navy Promotion Ahead of England Clash at Twickenham 24 August 2023 Tom Sansom When he is not tearing up the Premiership with Northampton Saints, Fijian international hooker Sam Matavesi is apart ofContinue reading “Fiji Hooker Sam Matavesi Awarded Royal Navy Promotion Ahead of England Clash at Twickenham”
USS Saint Paul (CA-73), a Baltimore-class cruiser, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Saint Paul, Minnesota.
USS Saint Paul 1956 Her keel was laid down as Rochester on 3 February 1943 by the Bethlehem Steel Company in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 16 September 1944 sponsored by Mrs. Marie Gordon McDonough,[1] wife of John J. McDonough, then mayor of Saint Paul; and commissioned on 17 February 1945, Captain Ernest H.Continue reading “USS Saint Paul (CA-73), a Baltimore-class cruiser, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Saint Paul, Minnesota.”
Royal Tank Regiment instructors on the reality of training Ukrainian soldiers Simon Newton 17th August 2023 at 9:10am
Play Video Watch: Challenger 2 instructors talk about training the Ukrainians. As Ukraine continues its counter-offensive, more than a dozen Challenger 2 tanks, which the UK donated to Kyiv, are waiting to play their part. Instructors from the Royal Tank Regiment oversaw the training of Ukrainian tank crews – teaching the soldiers who would soon be fighting for realContinue reading “Royal Tank Regiment instructors on the reality of training Ukrainian soldiers Simon Newton 17th August 2023 at 9:10am”
Gratton Lyng, last surviving veteran of HMNZS Achilles, dies at 102
The last surviving World War II veteran of the New Zealand cruiser HMNZS Achilles, which took part in the sinking of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee in the South Atlantic in 1939, has died at the age of 102. The Achilles, with two British cruisers, damaged the Graf Spee and forced it to withdrawContinueContinueContinue reading “Gratton Lyng, last surviving veteran of HMNZS Achilles, dies at 102”
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