Labour says reason Navy's newest vessels haven't left port in years is due to lack of skilled personnel to staff them.

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Not before time, the United States Navy has been invited to send a ship to New Zealand which, if accepted in the spirit in which it is given, could end a 30-year suspension of visits to our ports.....

The fishing boat was found sunk off the Canterbury coast after sending out a distress signal in a brutal storm on October 18.

Police believe they have found a body inside the sunken Jubilee fishing trawler on the seabed off Canterbury.

The Commander of the US Navy's Pacific fleet was greeted by blustery winds and spitting rain as he touched down in Wellington this morning.

A naval officer approved an $80k renovation for a cliff-top $3.15m heritage villa owned by the taxpayer - then moved in once the work was completed.

Prosecutions against those behind fishing vessels that tangled with the Royal NZ Navy over summer have been hailed as a "giant step forward" by Foreign Minister Murray McCully.

Lieutenant Commander Tim Garvan joined the navy as a teenager to avoid a student loan. At 31, he is now the captain of HMNZS Otago.

The New Zealand Defence Force is investigating an assault allegedly centring around a more senior staff member "ill-treating" a lower ranked naval rating.

The crisp, stark shorts, worn with polished white shoes and knee-high white socks, have been phased out in favour of more professional and practical long trousers.

I spent last week in the Auckland Islands, where only a few people get to go. DoC, the Navy and universities send people down a few times a year.

Royal New Zealand Navy signals expert Shayna Keenan can talk with flags.

The commanding officer of the navy ship that was outlasted by three ageing fishing vessels in the Southern Ocean has responded to critics who labelled the operation a disaster.

The Royal New Zealand Navy has discovered a third fishing vessel with illegal catch in the Southern Ocean.

Royal NZ Navy officials were last night seeking permission to board two fishing vessels in the Southern Ocean which have been found with illegal catches.

The New Zealand navy has intercepted fishing vessels with illegal catch in the Southern Ocean.

Auckland has been NZ's naval hub for almost 175 years but few know the Navy's establishment in Devonport was marred by a brutal triple murder and scandal.

Kiwi veterans joined nearly 600 sailors for a parade down Auckland's Queen Street this morning to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of the River Plate.

With bells clanging, whistles screeching and hundreds of booted sailors clattering to their firing stations, boy seaman Bob Batt had every right to be scared.

It would serve no purpose to retry a former senior naval officer, who had "been through hell" since being dismissed over an affair with a subordinate, a court has heard.

The Four Nations Maritime Rugby Cup kicked off when the Royal New Zealand Navy took on the United States Marine Corps at the Devonport Naval Base yesterday.

Tears and broad smiles were everywhere as naval families were reunited today after three long months at sea.

A senior naval officer who was dismissed from the service for having a relationship with a subordinate has had his convictions quashed.

The Royal New Zealand Navy has lost its "number one" after the retirement of possibly its oldest employee.

New Zealand defence personnel are on their way home after the world's largest military exercise in Hawaii.