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• 6 September 1936 - HMS Achilles arrives in New Zealand for the first time.
• 7 September 1807 - seventy ship of the Danish Navy surrenders to the Royal Navy at Copenhagen.
• 8 September 1943 - Italy surrenders to the Allies. Mussolini flees and chaos breaks out in POWs camps as the Italian guards walk away.
• 9 September 1935 - first landing of a rotary wing aircraft on a warship in this case HMS Fuirous
• 10 September 1917 - the Geddes memorandum on the reorganisation of the Admiralty is issued.
• 11 September 1970 - the USS Charles H. Davis is commissioned into RNZN service as HMNZS Tui 
• 12 September 1931 - Mutiny at Invergordon

DID YOU KNOW?

Figureheads on warships - the first proper figureheads appeared on warships in the 14th century. By the time of the 19th century figureheads could very lavish additions to the bow. By the 1860s this trend had ended. HMS Warrior was one of the last warships to carry a figurehead. After her most ships carried a shield on the bow but by the dawn of the 20th century even this practice had been phased out.

Nelson's 'Band of Brothers' - in 1798 Nelson referred to the British captains under his command during the Mediterranean campaign as his 'band of brothers'. He took the phrase from Shakespeare's Henry V, Act IV, Scene III where King Henry speaks to his men on the eve of the battle of Agincourt: