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HMS Ramillies congratulates Achilles

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HMS <em>Ramillies</em> congratulates <em>Achilles</em>

HMS Ramillies in Wellington Harbour in January 1940, flying a banner congratulating Achilles on its role in the Battle of the River Plate. The battleship was in New Zealand to escort the big troopships carrying the First Echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force to the Middle East.

Credit

Image from Achilles at the River Plate, by S.D. Waters
War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington 1948
Further information on this image may be obtained through the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre website.

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HMS Ramillies congratulates Achilles, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/hms-ramillies-congratulates-achilles, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated