NEW ZEALAND’S ANTARCTIC SHIP COMMISSIONED.—Photographs taken at Southampton a week ago when the former Falkland Islands Dependencies’ survey ship, John Biscoe, was renamed Endeavour and commissioned in the Royal New Zealand Navy. In the upper photograph, from left, are Dr. V. E. Fuchs (leader of the British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition), Lady Webb (who performed the re-naming ceremony), Captain H. Kirkwood (captain of the Endeavour), and Sir Clifton Webb (New Zealand High Commissioner).
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28053, 22 August 1956, Page 14
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72NEW ZEALAND’S ANTARCTIC SHIP COMMISSIONED.—Photographs taken at Southampton a week ago when the former Falkland Islands Dependencies’ survey ship, John Biscoe, was renamed Endeavour and commissioned in the Royal New Zealand Navy. In the upper photograph, from left, are Dr. V. E. Fuchs (leader of the British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition), Lady Webb (who performed the re-naming ceremony), Captain H. Kirkwood (captain of the Endeavour), and Sir Clifton Webb (New Zealand High Commissioner). Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28053, 22 August 1956, Page 14
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