Title: The birth and growth of the Royal New Zealand Navy /
Authors: Harker, Jack S.
Date: 2001
Publisher: Pentland Press,
Physical description: xiv, 491 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: V
Abstract: A comprehensive account of the naval history of New Zealand and the RNZN's role in the Second World War.
Contents: Foreword / Peter McHaffie -- Foreword / Russell J. Johnson -- The Saga of Admiral Count Reichsgraf von Spee -- HMS/HMNZS Philomel, 5th of the Name, Mother of our RNZN -- NZ Warships between the Wars -- 1915-1930 -- NZ Involvement in Samoa -- Proposed BOAC Flying Boat Pacific Route -- Achilles Arrives Auckland -- September 1936 -- US & UK Flying Boats in Auckland. Achilles Recommissions in Portsmouth -- Preparations for War -- Battle of the Plate -- Leander Goes West -- Leander in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Med Fleet -- Almost HMNZS Neptune -- Achilles Back on the NZ Station -- War in the Pacific, Pearl Harbour, Singapore, Coral Sea -- Midway, Early Guadalcanal -- Achilles' X-turret Destroyed at Guadalcanal -- Leander Torpodoed at Kolombangara -- New Zealand Cruisers Reorganised -- Gambia in the Atlantic and the East Indies -- Union Coy's MV Hauraki Captured by Japs. Gambia in the BPF -- Achilles Goes North and Joins the BPF -- BPF TF37 Joins US TF38 off Japan. Gambia Bombards Kamaichi -- Victory in the Pacific -- Repossession of Japanese-Occupied British-Asian Interests -- The Final Reckoning.
Subject headings (LCSH): New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Navy--History.; New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Navy.; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, New Zealand.