Torpedo Bay Navy Museum
Restored nineteenth-century mine depot turned naval museum on a harbourside bay in Devonport.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Torpedo Bay Navy Museum in Devonport, Auckland centers on Count Felix von Luckner, the German raider captain newspapers dubbed the Sea Devil, and his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp on Motuihe Island in December 1917. It follows his staged Christmas play, a stolen launch and coal scow, and the pursuit that ended eight days later near the Kermadec Islands. You'll also hear what the building itself was originally built to store, back in the eighteen nineties, before it ever held a prisoner for the night.
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