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This week in Navy History 27 Sept |
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- 28 September 1948 the frigate HMS Loch Achray commissioned as HMNZS Kaniere.
- 28 September 2009 - keys for the new Navy Museum handed over to Mainzeal to being the building project
- 29 September 1758 - Horatio Nelson born
- 29 September 1941 - the first Russian convoy PQ1 departs
- 30 September 1994 - Old Cookery school demolished
- 1 October 1827 Battle of Navarino - last naval battle under sail as a British, Russian and French fleet defeated a Turkish and Egyptian fleet as part of the Greco-Turkish War.
- 1 October 1941 - Naval Order 1941/169 is enacted establishing the title Royal New Zealand Navy
- 2 October 1901 - The RN's first submarine is launched as HM s/m No. 1 and later renamed Holland 1
- 3 October 1906 HMS Dreadnought begins sea trials
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