Cortez Unger

The Formation Of New Zealand Navy Cortez Unger

The Royal New Zealand Navy is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force.

In the summer of 1873, New Zealand was rocked by a scandal: Russian terrorists had newspaper editor David Leckie insisted, taken over a British warship in Auckland harbor and held the town to ransom. It was a hoax, but the moment served to highlight New Zealand's growing sense of vulnerability, as one of Britain's furthest-flung colonies. So, in earnest, began their naval story - one that extended through the highs and lows of the twentieth century: the First World War - when New Zealand naval forces and personnel fought from the North Sea to the Pacific - to the Second, when New Zealand's naval forces joined combat in most of the major theatres, and finally the Cold War. It was a dramatic, exciting, and ultimately human story of people, politics, heroism, and struggle.