Aust. Navy ship visit
"he Royal Australian M vys training ship Jervis B y will call at Lyttelton at t’ • week-end on a visit to Canterbury. Members of the public may visit the ship between 2 Jjn. and 4 p.m. tomorrow, or watch the ship's Australian Rules football team play .’.gainst a Canterbury team at Wainoni Park tomorrow afternoon.
The crew will also play Royal New Zealand Air Force basketball and volleyball teams at Wigram tomorrow and a basketball match against DB Burnside at the Pioneer Stadium on Sundav.
Before the Jervis Bay sails; for Dunedin on Tuesday 30; local sea rangers and 70 sea’ cadets will visit the ship,'
and the commanding officer. Commander C. J. Littleton, will call on the Mayor of Lyttelton (Mr M. E. Foster) and the King Edward Barracks. The Jervis Bay's main role is to provide navigation training for young seamen officers from the Royal Australian Navy College and other countries. Ten midshipmen from the Royal New Zealand Navy’s officers' training school at
.iH.M.N.Z.S. Tamaki will dis- , embark at Lyttelton. They fl joined the Jervis Bay at ) I Auckland and have spent the ■[last fortnight sailing round I (he New Zealand coast with sitheir Australian counter--1 parts. il The Jervis Bay was built ■ in Australia in 1969 as a l-rol 1-on passenger-vehicle [ship. She was transferred to I the Royal Australian Navy sjin 1977 and modified for her i mew training role.
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Press, 7 April 1979, Page 23
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238Aust. Navy ship visit Press, 7 April 1979, Page 23
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