HMS Maori was a Tribal-class destroyer named after the indigenous Māori people of New Zealand. She served with the United Kingdom Mediterranean Fleet...
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passage in the western Approaches together with HMS Cairo, and the destroyers HMS Cossack, Bridge, Maori, Ottawa (RCN), ORP Piorun (Polish), Sikh & Restigouche...
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ORP Piorun (G65) (redirect from HMS Nerissa (G65))
Piorun, with ships of the British 4th Destroyer Flotilla (HMS Cossack, HMS Maori, HMS Sikh and HMS Zulu), commanded by Captain Philip Vian, provided additional...
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may refer to: Taiaroa Head, New Zealand Archie Taiaroa (1937–2010), prominent New Zealand Māori Dick Taiaroa (c. 1866–1954), New Zealand rugby union player...
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Mason, Geoffrey B (2001). "HMS Maori". naval-history.net. Retrieved 31 October 2008. Mason, Geoffrey B (2004). "HMS Cossack". naval-history.net. Retrieved...
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Royal New Zealand Navy (category Articles containing Māori-language text)
including the cruisers HMS Achilles (joined 31 March 1937) and HMS Leander, which replaced Diomede and Dunedin (replaced by Leander in 1937). When Britain went...
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Hei-tiki (category Pages with Māori IPA)
traditional Māori culture and arts such as Kiri Nathan including pounamu jewellery in her 2013 London Fashion Week exhibition. The captain of HMS New Zealand...
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HMS Dorsetshire (pennant number 40) was a County-class heavy cruiser of the British Royal Navy, named after the English county, now usually known as Dorset...
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3°33′36″N 104°28′42″E / 3.56000°N 104.47833°E / 3.56000; 104.47833 HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that...
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HMS Jupiter was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. As completed, Jupiter had a main gun armament of six 4.7-inch (119 mm) QF Mark XII guns in three...
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Pai Mārire (category Māori organisations)
The Pai Mārire movement (commonly known as Hauhau) was a syncretic Māori religion founded in Taranaki by the prophet Te Ua Haumēne. It flourished in the...
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in the Japanese Emergency Naval Expansion Bill after the commissioning of HMS Invincible in 1908. The four battlecruiser s of the Kongō class were designed...
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destroyer HMS Tenedos, armed merchant cruiser HMS Hector and 27 aircraft were destroyed and over 500 killed in the harbor, while cruisers HMS Cornwall...
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for Netherlands East Indies Engagements, 23 January – 27 February 1942. HMS Argus Some English language sources rely on Roscoe which incorrectly attributes...
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cruiser HMS Diana as executive officer and served in her in the Mediterranean until June 1902, when he was posted to the signal school at HMS Victory...
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HMHS Britannic (redirect from HMS Britannic)
and was received by several other ships in the area, among them HMS Scourge and HMS Heroic, but Britannic heard nothing in reply. Unknown to either Bartlett...
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HMS Jersey was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. On 25 March 1937, the British Admiralty placed orders for the eight destroyers of the J class, including...
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HMS Hermes was a British aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy and was the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, although the...
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Barton Babbage, "Hauhauism: An Episode in the Maori Wars 1863-1866", chapter 1. A.H & A.W. Reed, Dunedin, 1937 "The Church Missionary Gleaner, February 1877"...
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the night of 13/14 October, Vian, now re-established in HMS Cossack and with HMS Ashanti, Maori and Sikh, attacked a small German convoy off Egerö light...
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Penny (New Zealand pre-decimal coin) (category Articles containing Māori-language text)
toki poutangata (a greenstone Māori adze) superimposed with a whakapakoko rākau or godstick, a ceremonial staff used by Māori priests. Gray's penny design...
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HMS Sikh was a Tribal-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The ship entered service in 1938 and served during the Second World War, participating...
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History of New Zealand (category Articles containing Māori-language text)
settled by Polynesians, who developed a distinct Māori culture. Like other Pacific cultures, Māori society was centred on kinship links and connection...
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officers, Commander Denis 'Lofty' Sprague, captain of HMS Thames, and Lieutenant Patrick Griffiths of HMS Rorqual, and French warrant officer mechanic Yves...
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HMS Mashona was one of 16 Tribal-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy shortly before the beginning of Second World War in 1939. Completed in that...
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HMS Repulse was one of two Renown-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Originally laid down as an improved version...
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cruisers, De Ruyter, Java and HMAS Perth, the heavy cruisers Houston and HMS Exeter, and nine destroyers, as ABDA fleet's largest effort yet to destroy...
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Jul: Francis Preston Blair, I-351, HMS Ludlow, HMS Maori, Walter L M Russ 16 Jul: USS Gamble, I-13, Nankai 17 Jul: HMS Athlete, John H. Hammond 18 Jul:...
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French North Africa, where she was sunk by enemy aircraft. Awatea is a Māori word meaning "eye of the dawn". Vickers-Armstrongs built Awatea at Barrow-in-Furness...
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influenza) kills 60% of the Māori population in the southern North Island. 1791 29 November: Chatham Islands sighted by HMS Chatham commanded by William...
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