H.M.S. DIOMEDE.
VOYAGE TO NEW ZEALAND. (raoM oitr ows .coEREsroKDEKT.) LONDON', October 23. H.M.S. Diomede left Sheerness yesterday for New Zealand. The first port, of call will be Gibraltar, where a day or two will be spent taking in oil. Aftor crossing the Atlantic the ship will call at Jamaica and Balboa. m the Marquesas Islands, and Boro Borp will bo visited in the Pacific, and at some point the ship will- be supplied with oil by the oil ship, Nucula. The Diomede is expected to arrive at Auckland on December COth, when the majority of the ship's crew will be due for Christmas leave. There are -0 officers on board, and 350 ratings. The latter include IqO New.-Zegland ratings who came over with the- ship, and have since been taking courses in England. The other 200 are on loan to the "New Zealand Division. Some sixty or seventy of these will • return by H.M.S. Dunedin,- and the remainder will be serving; in. New "Zealand for three years.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20100, 2 December 1930, Page 16
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