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Torpedo7 is a New Zealand retailer that owns and operates several online stores, including Torpedo7 (a retailer of sports and outdoor equipment), 1-day.co.nz (an online daily deals site), and Number One Fitness (which sells exercise equipment).
The Mi Piaci chain, established in 2007, sells women's shoes and accessories. [2] It was founded and continues to be run by Louise Anselmi, the wife of the company's managing director Shane Anselmi. [5] [1] It has 30 stores around New Zealand, including 11 in Auckland. [5] It also has an online shop in Australia. [6]
Hannahs is a New Zealand footwear retail company. Hannahs operates at 70 locations around New Zealand: 34 under its main Hannahs brand, 16 under its low-price Number One Shoes brand, and 20 as combined Number One Shoes and Hannahs stores. [1] [2]
This category contains the Python-class torpedo boats of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Pages in category "Python-class torpedo boats"
In 1846, five years after New Zealand was first proclaimed a colony, it bought its first gunboat. In the 1840s and 1850s, steam boats were used to survey the ports and the coastline. In the 1860s, New Zealand established the Waikato flotilla, its first de facto navy. By the late 19th century, New Zealand was using cruisers and torpedo boats.
The new torpedo boats were 46.6 m (152 ft 11 in) long at the waterline and 45.9 m (150 ft 7 in) between perpendiculars, with a beam of 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in) and a draught of 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in). [1] Two coal-fired Yarrow water-tube boilers fed a single three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine which drove a single propeller shaft.
On the 18 February 2010 Otago was accepted into the Royal New Zealand Navy. [3] NZ Ministry of Defence claimed the overweight issue was not as bad as previously thought, but "weight will have to be carefully monitored during the ship's life". The vessel was scheduled to arrive at Devonport (Auckland) Naval Base on 26 March 2010.
The exhibits on display at the Torpedo Bay Navy Museum trace New Zealand's naval history since the Flagstaff War in 1845. [3]One of the first displays covers the New Zealand-funded British battlecruiser HMS New Zealand, and includes the piupiu (Māori warrior's skirt) which was presented to the ship's commanding officer during the vessel's visit to New Zealand in 1913.