Hauraki Gulf
(Place)
Image Gallery
.jpg "A Fairmile submarine-chaser in the Hauraki Gulf")
.jpg "A German mine adrift in the Hauraki Gulf")
.jpg "Black and white map of sea route")
.jpg "HMNZS Breeze, minesweeper, in the Hauraki Gulf")
.jpg "The explosion of a depth-charge dropped by a destroyer in the Hauraki Gulf")
.jpg "This reproduction of the Orion's chart of her course across the approaches to the Hauraki Gulf shows also the position of ships sighted while her minelaying was in progress. The numbers added in black give a key to translations of the notes on the map (1)Vessel in sight (2)Steamer in sight (3)Steamer in sight (4)Position of sinking of Niagara (5)Steamer in sight (6)Moko Hinau light (7)Blacked-out vessel (8)Vessel (9)Moon bearing at 2100 hours The main heading at the bottom of the map states that it is to be superimposed on British chart 2543, enclosure No. 2 to Report No. 201 of 7 August 1940. The thin line shows the raider's course, the thicker line shows mines about 800 metres apart, and the double lines mines about 400 metres apart. The south-eastern end of the minefield covering the approaches north and south of Cuvier Island is not shown in this copy")
Mentioned in
- 18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
- Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume I
- Episodes & Studies Volume 1
- Episodes & Studies Volume 2
- Hero Stories of New Zealand
- Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
- Medical Services in New Zealand and The Pacific
- New Zealand's Burning — The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- Sir Donald Maclean
- Sketches of Early Colonisation in New Zealand and its Phases of Contact with the Maori Race
- The Autobiography of a Maori
- The Home Front Volume II
- The Royal New Zealand Navy
- War Economy
