A short video filmed in Marlborough, New Zealand, with the Royal New Zealand Navy's ship HMNZS Otago.
Experience the scenery of the Marlborough Sounds, and watch the action of the RNZ's finest in action along with 40 other special guests during the Otago's visit to Picton to help celebrate the 160th birthday of the Edwin Fox, one of the world's oldest surviving sailing ships, which is house in a dry dock in Picton Harbour.
Members of the Edwin Fox Society, the Marlborough Museum, society volunteers and other special guests were taken for a five-hour trip into the Marlborough Sounds aboard the Otago. During the trip the crew did a forced protection exercise that saw a .50 calibre gun firing blank rounds at an "enemy" vessel. They also simulated a hostile boarding situation and carried out a man overboard drill and fire drill.
The frigate also travelled the length of Queen Charlotte Sound to Ship Cove where the British high commissioner, Vicki Treadell, who was also aboard, and a small party went ashore and laid a wreath at the Captain James Cook monument.
Most of Ship's Company feature, with good interviews of LT CDR Rob McCaw (Captain), LT Nick Foster (Executive Officer), LT Jodi Greenhalgh (Supply Officer), SLT Tyson Witana (Bridge Watchkeeping Officer), ASCS Dillon Dolman-Tuhou (Quarter Master), ASCS Hayden Newport (Quarter Master), OHSO Karin Burling (Bosun's Mate and Trainee).
HMNZS Otago was a Rothesay-class anti-submarine frigate, which was completed in 1960.
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