VISIT TO H.M.S. ACHILLES REVIVES MEMORIES. Rear-Admiral R. E. Washbourn (right), a former Chief of the New Zealand Naval Staff, with Commander K. Low, captain of H.M.S. Achilles, which is visiting Nelson. Admiral Washbourn, as a lieutenant-commander, was.gunnery officer in an earlier H.M.S. Achilles (the sixth of that name), which played a notable part in the Battle of the River Plate in December, 1939, when the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled. The seventh Achilles is an anti-submarine frigate.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32700, 1 September 1971, Page 2
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81VISIT TO H.M.S. ACHILLES REVIVES MEMORIES. Rear-Admiral R. E. Washbourn (right), a former Chief of the New Zealand Naval Staff, with Commander K. Low, captain of H.M.S. Achilles, which is visiting Nelson. Admiral Washbourn, as a lieutenant-commander, was.gunnery officer in an earlier H.M.S. Achilles (the sixth of that name), which played a notable part in the Battle of the River Plate in December, 1939, when the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled. The seventh Achilles is an anti-submarine frigate. Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32700, 1 September 1971, Page 2
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