SUBMARINE AT AUCKLAND
♦ VISIT OF BRITISH VESSEL (P.A.) AUCKLAND, July 28. , The first British submarine New Zealand has seen recently visited Auckland. Of about 700 tons, she was built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow, and was first commissioned in November, 1943. She sank 13 enemy ships in the Aegean Sea, four by torpedoes and nine by gunfire, before the end of the war in Europe resulted in her transfer to the British Pacific Fleet. Following the custom ot the submarine service, the submarine had its own “Jolly Roger” flag with four bars to record its sinkings by torpedoes, and nine stars for its surface successes, but this flag was lost at Sydney. How it happered no one in the submarine knows. It was flying from the ship one day and was gone the next.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24631, 30 July 1945, Page 6
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