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Friday, 11 December 2009
New Navy junior officers and sailors are today's custodians of the values that distinguished New Zealand sailors fighting in the Battle of the River Plate, Defence Minister Wayne Mapp told a graduation parade at the Devonport Naval Base in Auckland today.

Sunday is the 70th anniversary of the famous battle in which the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was engaged and defeated in Argentina's River Plate estuary by a Royal Navy cruiser squadron including HMS Achilles. Achilles was then part of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, forerunner of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Over half her crew were New Zealanders.

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