Royal New Zealand Naval Association Inc.

• 8 November 1942 - Operation TORCH - Allied landings in North Africa. Many New Zealanders are serving in supporting vessels, landing craft and with the Fleet Air Arm
• 9 November 1914 RAN cruiser HMAS Sydney sinks the German cruiser SMS Emden at the Cocos Islands and removed a threat to the ANZAC troopships
• 10 November 1891 the cruiser HMS Philomel is first commissioned into the Royal Navy
• 11 November 1918 Armistice Day - the German Armistice went into effect at 1100 11 November 1918 bringing the fighting to an end. The Armistice remained in effect until the peace treaty was agreed to in June 1919. 
• 12 November 1944 Operation CATECHISM Lancaster bombers from Bomber Command sink the Tirpitz at Tromso Norway 
• 13 November 1942 Nightime engagement off Guadacanal. An American fleet of five cruisers and eight destroyers engages a Japanese fleet consisting of two battleships, one cruiser and eleven destroyers bombarding the Marine positions at Henderson Field. The engagement was fought at very close range and soon one USN cruiser and four destroyers are sunk and the others badly damaged. The senior American commanders are killed in action. The Japanese lose one battleship and two destroyers. 
• 14 November The NZ author Dennis Glover, is awarded the DSC his part in landing commandos on D-Day

DID YOU KNOW?

Wellington Boot - these were leather boots that came to just below the knee and came into use in the British Army at the end of the Crimean War (1854-1856). Named after the Duke of Wellington victor at Waterloo, the name was also used for rubber boots that came into use at the end of the 19th century.

Clubbing - a term for when a ship drifts with the tide with an anchor down. A vessel clubbing will therefore be taken stern first.