BATTLE OF RIVER PLATE
Relics for Auckland
(P.A.) ' AUCKLAND, April 8. Two rplics of the battle of the River Plate, commemorating the part played in it by H.M.S. Achilles, are to be presented to Auckland through the good offices of the cruiser’s present commanding officer’, Captain H. M. Barnes. The gifts are part of the cruiser’s mainmast, 29 feet in length, on which th 6 New Zealand ensign was flown for the first time in history as a battle flag. The mast will be erected on Achilles Point, St. Heliers. . The other relic is a piece of steel plating showing the damage caused by a shell splinter. This has been mounted in a mahogany case, with a glass front, and will be presented to the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
A dirk worn by Lord Nelson as a midshipman, a rplic which the Mayor' (Sir Ernest Davis) placed in the custody of Commodore W. E. Parry after the return of the Achilles to New Zealand, will be deposited in the museum for the duration of the war.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23300, 9 April 1941, Page 6
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