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Post by meo4 on Mar 24, 2014 15:13:59 GMT 12
Navy Open Day
Devonport Naval Base, Queens Parade, Auckland
Saturday 29 March 2014, 10:00am – 4:00pm
When:
Sat 29 Mar, 10:00am – 4:00pm
Where:Devonport Naval Base, Queens Parade, Devonport Show map
Restrictions:All Ages
Tickets:
Free Admission
Website:Royal New Zealand Navy
Come and see your Navy in action - Free ship and base tours, band performances, damage control displays, parade and precision marching, helicopters, kapa haka performances and more!
The Navy will open its doors to the public for the first Open Day in over three years.
You're invited to make a day of it, bringing friends and family to Devonport for a great day out. Food and drink will be available.
The Royal New Zealand Navy has a modern and versatile fleet capable of operating across the spectrum of maritime operations; including combat, amphibious sealift, border surveillance and patrol, multi-agency operations, humanitarian aid and defence diplomacy tasks.
Programme:
Time event
0950 – 1020 RNZN Band
1000 HMNZS PHILOMEL Opens
1020 - 1050 Kapa Haka Performance
1030 - 1040 Parade Display
1030 - 1110 History Tour, departs from Gambia Square
1050 - 1115 Pipes and Drums
1045 - 1100 PT Display
1100 - 1140 RNZN Band
1100 - 1130 Pipes and Drums
1115 - 1145 Boarding Demonstration
1130 - 1200 Kapa Haka Performance
1130 Chapel Tour, St Christopher’s Chapel
1145 Cadet Boat Rigging Competition
1200 - 1230 RNZN Band
1230 - 1300 Pipes and Drums
1230 - 1310 History Tour, departs from Gambia Square
1245 Cadet Boat Rigging Competition
1300 - 1310 Parade Display
1315 - 1330 PT Display
1330 - 1400 Boarding Demonstration
1330 Chapel Tour, St Christopher’s Chapel
1345 - 1415 Pipes and Drums and Highland Dancing
1415 - 1425 Parade Display
1430 - 1445 PT Display
1430 - 1510 History Tour, departs from Gambia Square
1445 - 1515 Boarding Demonstration
1500 Cadet Boat Rigging Competition
1515 - 1545 Pipes and Drums and Highland Dancing
1530 Ships and Access Gates close to visitors
1600 HMNZS PHILOMEL Closes
All day demonstrations (1000 – 1600)
Communications Warfare Specialist School: Display and Flag Hoist Competitions
Leadership Development Group: Leadership Evolutions, Drills and Sword Drill practise
Recruit Training School: Kit Demonstrations, General Drills and Parade Drill Display
Operational Dive Team: Military Dive Capability and Improvised Explosive Device Display
Sea Safety Training Squadron: Damage Control Displays and Tours
PHILOMEL Boats: Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat Capability Demonstrations (every half hour commencing from 1015).
Bridge Simulator: Entries into Auckland Harbour and Sydney Harbour on the hour and half hour.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Mar 24, 2014 19:18:01 GMT 12
No mention of Seasprites.
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Post by phil on Mar 24, 2014 21:55:14 GMT 12
There is on the Navy Facebook page.
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Post by meo4 on Mar 25, 2014 20:48:07 GMT 12
This version mentions the sea sprite , usually a static display on the sport fields.
Devonport Naval Base – Open Day
This weekend offers the opportunity to experience the life of a sailor in the Royal New Zealand Navy, as the Devonport Naval Base hosts its first open day since 2010.
Where: Devonport Naval Base
When: Saturday 29th March, 10am – 4pm
Five ships will be open to the public for tours, with HMNZS MANAWANUI anchored off the wharves conducting boarding demonstrations all day.
The open day offers opportunities to watch sailors marching, ship and base tours, damage control and fire-fighting techniques, SH-2G Sea Sprite, the Navy Band and kapa haka performances. There will be flag hoisting competitions, physical training displays. The Navy’s Bridge Simulator will be open for tours - where you can see entries into both Auckland and Sydney harbours from the perspective of a naval frigate.
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Post by Mark Griffin on Mar 29, 2014 21:21:08 GMT 12
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Post by Brett on Mar 30, 2014 10:31:54 GMT 12
I was wondering about the ‘Boarding Demonstration’.
Does the general public really want to see Navy personnel milling aimlessly around the gate lounge waiting for their seating area to be called, joining the first lot of passengers boarding regardless of their actual seating allocation, squeezing into a line to hand their boarding pass to the ground crew, walking down the airbridge, stopping at the entryway while a stroller is being disassembled outside the door, displaying their boarding pass (again) to the Flight Attendant and receiving directions to their seat, pausing hallway to their seat to let a fellow passenger get their carry-on out of the overhead locker and remove a laptop, a tablet, an MP3 player, an X-box 360, a 44” flat screen TV, a copy of the NZ Herald, a “NZ House and Garden’ magazine, a paperback copy of Dan Brown’s ‘The Di-vinci Code’, a pillow, a blanket, a pair of slippers, an eye-mask, 44kg of assorted make-up and hair products, a blue ball-point pen stolen from a Travelodge, a 500ml Pump water bottle, a packet of Tim-tams, a packet of Grain Waves, a 300gm slab of chocolate, a de-humidifier, and pedestal fan, an LPG heater, and finally a copy of “Packing 101: Travelling light”, then dispersing all of the recently unpacked items in various pouches and nooks until FINALLY stepping out of the aisle and letting everyone else board, then walking forward three more steps until stopping to allow the person in front to place their suitcase, guitar, skis, 1:25th scale model of the USS Nimitz (in its glass display case), fully-assembled 2.5 ton hydraulic engine crane and a ficus in its plant pot into the overhead locker, proceeding to their assigned seat, having a discussion with the person sitting in the assigned seat, scramblings to compare boarding passes, glances at seat numbers, murmured apologies (apparently they were thinking of the seat number on the boarding pass for the next sector), moving against the traffic flow to get to the correct seat, sighing with frustration that the overhead bins seem to be full, trying to fit their luggage, jacket, umbrella, 27-piece drum kit, inflated bouncy-castle and a kitset garden shed under the seat in front of them, discovering that the under-seat support of the seat in front of them is in the middle of their foot-well so they have to sit at an angle, and finally finding that there is no magazine in the seat pocket in front of them and they haven’t brought anything to read?
But then I realised that the demonstration was probably about how Navy personnel board another vessel while at sea.
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Post by meo4 on Mar 30, 2014 18:14:22 GMT 12
Terminology can be different between services. RNZAF boarding  RNZN boarding  RNZAF boarding party  RNZN boarding party  |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Mar 31, 2014 21:53:02 GMT 12
The Seasprite on display at the event was NZ3604. Seen here departing back to Whenuapai, unfortunatly straight into the afternoon sun  |
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