Name/Title Ring bolt Provenance Piece of ring bolt from HMS QUEEN MARY which landed on the quarter deck of HMS NEW ZEALAND when QUEEN MARY blew up during the Battle of Jutland. Ringbolt is mounted on a block of greenstone with a silver plate which read, “Part from a deck fitting of HMS Queen…
Name/Title Bronze head/bell hanger Provenance Bronze Maori head for hanging HMS NEW ZEALAND bell. It was made from coins collected from penny trails by the school children of NZ and presented to the original HMS NEW ZEALAND in 1905. This ship was renamed ZEALANDIA in 1911 when NZ purchased the battle cruiser HMS NEW ZEALAND…
Name / Title Piupiu Provenance Piupiu gifted to Captain Halsey (Royal Navy) of HMS NEW ZEALAND when the ship visited New Zealand in 1913. HMS NEW ZEALAND was a battlecruiser, funded by the Government of New Zealand, and commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1912. It is uncertain as to which Maori chief presented the…
Name / Title Battle honours board Provenance Battle honours board made to mark HMS New Zealand’s participation at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. Likely to have been made by the Royal Navy dockyard, UK (or possibly on board ship) following the Battle of Jutland, it was mounted on the ship’s super structure during…