The Royal New Zealand Navy

Contents

• • [covers]
  • [frontispiece]
  • Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–45
  • [title page]
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Maps
• • Part 1 — Royal New Zealand Navy
    • Chapter 1 — Genesis of Royal New Zealand Navy
    • CHAPTER 2 — Outbreak of War: Cruise of HMS Achilles
    • CHAPTER 3 — The Search for the Admiral Graf Spee
    • CHAPTER 4 — The Battle of the River Plate
    • CHAPTER 5 — The Destruction of the Admiral Graf Spee
    • CHAPTER 6 — The Cruise of the Leander
    • CHAPTER 7 — Hunting Raiders in the Indian Ocean
    • CHAPTER 8 — Operations off the Coast of Syria
    • CHAPTER 9 — Raider in New Zealand Waters
    • CHAPTER 10 — Cruise of the Orion and Komet
    • CHAPTER 11 — Protection of Shipping
    • CHAPTER 12 — Minesweeping in New Zealand Waters
    • CHAPTER 13 — The Loss of HMS Neptune
    • CHAPTER 14 — Anti-Submarine Policy
    • CHAPTER 15 — Anti-Invasion Mine Defences
    • CHAPTER 16 — The Aggressions of Japan
    • CHAPTER 17 — Peril in the South Pacific
    • CHAPTER 18 — The Minesweeping Flotillas
    • CHAPTER 19 — Turn of the Tide in the Pacific
    • CHAPTER 20 — The Struggle for Guadalcanal
    • CHAPTER 21 — Battles for the Solomons
    • CHAPTER 22 — The Tide of Victory
    • CHAPTER 23 — The New Zealand Cruisers
    • CHAPTER 24 — With the British Pacific Fleet
    • CHAPTER 25 — The Surrender of Japan
  • PART II — ORGANISATION AND ADMINISTRATION
    • CHAPTER 26 — Recruiting and Training
    • CHAPTER 27 — Organisation of Naval Staff
    • CHAPTER 28 — Development of Radar
  • PART III — NEW ZEALANDERS IN THE ROYAL NAVY
    • CHAPTER 29 — New Zealanders in the Royal Navy
    • Appendix I — THE FIRST NEW ZEALAND NAVY
      • [section]
      • ART. III.—The First New Zealand Navy; with some Episodes of the Maori War in connection with the British Navy
    • Appendix II — RECORD OF HMS LEANDER
      • FIRST LEANDER, 1780:
      • SECOND LEANDER, 1814:
      • THIRD LEANDER, 1848:
      • FOURTH LEANDER, 1882:
      • FIFTH LEANDER, 1933:
    • Appendix III — RECORD OF HMS ACHILLES
    • Appendix IV — PRISONERS OF WAR AND PAROLE
    • Appendix V — EXECUTION BY JAPANESE OF FLEET AIR ARM OFFICERS
    • Appendix VI — MEMBERS OF NEW ZEALAND NAVAL BOARD
      • Naval Adviser to Government
      • Commodore Commanding New Zealand Squadron and First Naval Member
      • Chief of Naval Staff and First Naval Member
      • Second Naval Member
      • Naval Secretary
    • Appendix VII — RECORD OF HMS NEW ZEALAND
    • Appendix VIII — RECORD OF HMNZS PHILOMEL
    • Appendix IX — NEW ZEALAND TRAINING SHIP AMOKURA
    • Bibliography
      • PUBLISHED SOURCES
      • UNPUBLISHED SOURCES
    • Index
• [backmatter]

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Title: The Royal New Zealand Navy

Author: Waters, S. D.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1956, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

Key subjects of this text: Royal New Zealand Navy

Keywords: New Zealand World War II History

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