Onward. H.M. S. New Zealand "Kia-Ora".

Publisher: Swiss & Co., Naval Printers, Devonport, 1918.

Good hardback, blue boards have some marks, fading, rubbing and bumping, ffep has been removed, inscription inside front board, pages good light foxing. 38 pages, illustrated.

She was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Govan, Glasgow, being commissioned on the 19th November, 1912. The cost of her construction was met by the Dominion of New Zealand, who then gave her to the British Navy. She had a very active wartime service record, being present at the Battle of Heligoland Bight (August, 1914); the Battle of Dogger Bank (January, 1915); the Battle of Jutland (May-June, 1916); Second Battle of Heligoland Bight (November, 1917); during 1918 she was occasionally used on escort duty for convoys sailing between Britain and Norway, and was present at the time of the surrendering of the German High Seas Fleet in the Forth, in November, 1918.

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