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JULY 2010 - NAVAL BASE OPEN DAY |
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Chief of Navy has directed that the Naval Base be opened to the
public on Saturday 9 October 2010. The Events Office is well into the
planning of this activity and is actively engaging with the local
community as well as external and internal Naval Base contacts to ensure
the success of this/these events. The Open Day is only one of the
events planned for the week of 4 – 10 October 2010; now dubbed Navy
Week, commemorating the 69th Anniversary of the RNZN. There are other
events planned for Wednesday 6 October (Charter Parade – to return the
Charter between RNZN and North Shore City Council), Friday 8 October
(Navy Museum Opening at Torpedo Bay) and on completion of the Navy Open
Day on 9 October, there is a Beat Retreat/Ceremonial Sunset planned for
5 pm in the Windsor Reserve, Devonport. The finale for the week will be
the Navy Anniversary Church Service and cake cutting from 10 am at St
Christopher’s Naval Chapel. |
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JULY 2010 - OTAGO DAILY TIMES ARTICLE AND PHOTO |
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of you will be aware the Otago Daily Times was at our recent 50th
Anniversary Reunion. The newspaper published a photograph of the
ships companies marching to Church which you can see
HERE. If you wish to order
a copy of the photograph then please click
HERE and download the order
form. |
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NAVY LOGO |
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approved a new Navy Logo. Details of the logo can be found by
clicking
LOGO.
Two members of the Communicators Association had the following to say
about the new logo and have forwarded their opinions direct to Naval
Staff.
Member No1 - Congratulations, I welcome
wholeheartedly the RNZN new logo and the demise of the present "identity
nonentity" which had very limited recognition significance in the wider
world outside New Zealand., We Had a "Kiwi on our Funnel" not a Koru.
However, I think it is possible that the "Fern Leaves" in the new logo
will pose a similar problem unless they are qualified in some way as
being of "New Zealand". The Naval Crown and Fouled Anchor are
evident that the logo designates a "Navy"...but WHAT or WHO"S Navy? To
this end may I respectfully suggest that the word "NAVY" at the base of
the logo be replaced by the initials "RNZN" thereby leaving no
uncertainty of identity of this logo being of "The Best Small Navy in
the World".
Member No2 - I received with interest today the
announcement of the ’proud promotion’ of the Royal New Zealand Navy’s
new logo. While not adverse to progress, I believe progress is best
achieved with sound professional advice. In this case, I believe the
Royal New Zealand Navy has been poorly advised. The Royal New
Zealand Navy operates on the international stage. The reliance on the
symbol of the ‘fern’ as an international identity, to the exclusion of
the name “Royal New Zealand Navy” (or the Kiwi symbol), may only serve
to promote us as a nation within the ‘rugby fraternity’ and the
Commonwealth. To quote you statistics in terms of the number of rugby
playing nations of the world and the profile of many Commonwealth
countries can only give concerns around ‘brand’ recognition and the
marketing potential of the new logo . In 2010, the world is much bigger
than that. While I appreciate it could be ‘too late’ to turn back, could
I please encourage you to promote the deletion of the word “Navy” and
replace it with the words ”Royal New Zealand Navy”. That is who we are,
that is who we served to represent and that is our brand.
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FEBRUARY 2010 - LONG TIME NO SEA REUNION 2011 - GOLD COAST |
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1st Newsletter and a copy
of the
Registration Form
for the 'LONG TIME NO SEA' REUNION to
be held in 2011 is now available. Fill out the Registration Form & enter
your Surname & Service No so that the committee can identify who has
paid as well as provide confirmation & Receipt of your payment.
The Newsletter has a link to the
Radisson Resort which is the chosen venue for the 2011 Reunion and they
have agreed to manage the Accommodation Bookings via the online link
Distribution List (Email details)
- As there are so many email contacts, the committee anticipate that
some may be obsolete and some sent in error so please forward this on to
others who may be interested in attending. For those who don't wish to
receive further Newsletters etc let me know so that I can update our
extensive database. Apologies to those who may have no connection
whatsoever... For the Facebook fans & "oldfriends" members, there are
some great photos from the previous Reunions so those already
social-networking may provide access on request. |
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FEBRUARY 2010 - JIM BLACKBURN HAS MOVED TO NEW HOME |
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many years Jim has finally been able to pay and move to his
dream retirement home.
He has made a few renovations which I am not sure are all for the best,
Anyway have a look and see what you think. Here is a photo of his
new place.
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16 DECEMBER - SHIRTS |
If you wish to purchase a
good auality wash-n-wear shirt which can be embroidered on the left
breast with the Navy Veterans Logo or the name and pennant number of
most ships which were commissioned in the RNZN and other Commonwealth
Navies? Shirts are available in size small to 4XL and are either
Navy Blue or White in colour. Price $45.00 per shirt which
includes embroidery and postage within New Zealand.
Contact Ken Shanklland Ph (09) 833 5331 email
kenys@kol.co.nz
Brian Thompson Ph (09) 838 7448 email
rubs@ihug.co.nz
Please Note.
HMNZS OTAGO Association badged shirts are only available through the
HMNZS OTAGO Association . |
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1 DECEMBER 2009 - WRITERS
AND WRENS REUNION 2010 |
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The Royal NZ Naval Women’s Assn
(formerly Ex-Wrens Assn) and the Writers will hold a reunion in 2010.
If you know any ex Wrens or writers then please pass the word.
Contact for these reunions is Ex CPOWTR Jill Thompson on
jill.thompson@clear.net.nz |
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February 2009 - NEW LINK FOR MARITIME BOOKS |
| I have
place a new link under the 'Other Links' page for a Martime Books.
Have a look through the site very good reference material. |
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29 November 2008 - UPDATE ON SERVICE
FROM THE SEA
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This book was successfully launched
onboard HMNZS CANTERBURY on the 28th November 2008. The book is
available from the Navy Museum at a cost of $50.00 per copy. It is
a wonderful book and I recommend it to you all.
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4 July 2008 - New History
Link
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Ever wondered what OTAGO was
doing during her life in commission. A new link has been added to
the History section which enables you to have a look at extracts of the
Annual Reports made to the New Zealand Naval Board and later the Defence
Council. Lots of dates and other information is also available.
These reports are currently up on the Royal New Zealand Navy Communicators
Assn website. Have a look
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23 November 2007 - New Page
- Dits
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This is a new page which we
are going to trial for a couple of months. If you have a 'DIT' and
you want to tell everyone. Then please send it to your Secretary and
he will arrange to spread the DIT in good naval fashion.
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17 May 2007
- New Comms
Web Site Launched
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To mark the 100th birthday of
the Royal Navy's Wireless Telegraphy branch a brand new web site has just
been launched which covers the period of 1895 to 1980 for W/T and
from 1937 to 1980 for Radar, a sister branch. To avoid confusion, the
telegraphist's at the very beginning, 1895 to 1906 were in reality
"odd-job-men" [many visual signal ratings being sent below when
Morse needs to be transmitted] and it wasn't until 1906/07 that the
Admiralty gave into the repeated calls from Admirals at sea to have full
time professionally trained telegraphists. It has taken many months to
write the site which is approximately 700MB in size, and whilst it can be
casually browsed it is intended to be a reference library. It tells of the
history of Wireless Telegraphy and [Radar of course but over a much
shorter period] in the Royal Navy, which, especially in the earlier days,
included the RAN, the RCN, the RNZN as well as the RIN [Royal Indian Navy]
RPN [Royal Pakisan Navy] and the SAN [South African Navy] both in the use
of ships and the equipment therein. The site covers every piece of
kit the RN has even owned or used, and reveals facts and figures from
books and documents never before made available in the public
domain.
The site can be found at http://www.rnmuseumradarandcommunications2006.org.uk
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12 April 2007 -
Medal
Mounting in Christchurch Region
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If anybody in the Christchurch
area is interested in having their medals mounted the following
contact has been recommended. Thanks John Bullock.
Alan Polaschek,
43 Ryan Street,
Phillipstown,
Christchurch. 8011.
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20 March 2007
- Court
Mounting Medals
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Ever thought of 'Court
Mounting' your medals? Banjo Patterson (ex Writer) now
undetakes this work so contact him direct on banjo.s@xtra.co.nz
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19 March 2007
- Ships
Memorabilia
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Banjo Patterson has had a
number of ships badges made for wearing on the lapel. These badges
currently cover CANTERBURY, ENDEAVOUR (Op Deepfreeze), ENDEAVOUR, ROYALIST
and the recently issued MALAYSIAN Medal. Details can be found at http://nznavy.bravehost.com/slops.html
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27 Oct 06 - Navy Museum Website
Launched |
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The Navy Museum launched its new
website at a small ceremony yesteday 26 November 2006, The website has
taken considerable time to develop and has been a long time coming. Over
600 pages have been placed on line and this is only the start. Highly
recommended to all to have a look. The website can be found at http://www.navymuseum.co.nz |
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Crossed the Bar - Roll of Honour |
Hi Men.
It is intended to put a page opn the website as "Roll Of Honour" on
which we will list those who served in "Otago" and have since
"Crossed the Bar". To do this we need your help .. please email
or write to me with a list of those whom you know have Crossed the Bar and help
us to make the list as complete as we can, and so keep their name alive.
Don't leave it and think "someone else" will let us know, because, to
someone else, YOU are that some else.
At present we have about 180 names
but we think there are many more that we am unaware of, so please
enlighten us. We would rather have a name sent to us10 times from different
sources
than not get it at all, so as Chiefie used to say "let's be 'avin' yer me
lad". To see what we have so far click HERE
Jim Blackburn
President jimblackburn@clear.net.nz |
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