RNZN Communicators Association

Your Association has became aware that a fellow ex communicator is in an unenviable position. Ex Radio Operator, 1977 –

RNZAF Shelly Bay started off as a naval establishment and still has portholes in what was the main doors of

Here is an image taken very recently and yes there are some communicators starring!. Can you identify them? Sitting on

Here is an image taken in 1986.  A communicator is quite prominent in the image.  Who is the Reviewing Officer

On the top, we have a PO Sparkers badge and a POs rank badge that would be worn on No1

Q1183 (later HMNZS Mako) on the left and Q03 Shenandoah on the right. Somewhere in the Hauraki Gulf circa 1943.

Here is an image of a class of Communicators from January 1966.  JRRO was the rank of Junior Recruit Radio

We all remember these words ‘Seapower’ but did you know where they originated.  Image number 3 makes interesting reading.

Here is an image from the Otago Daily Times of HMNZS ENDEAVOUR proceeding on Oceangraphic Studies in the Southern waters.

This occurred over the Christmas Retard in Dec 1961.  Do you remember the incident?