THE CANADIAN NAVY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1096, 7 April 1911, Page 5

THE CANADIAN NAVY.

. % NEW TRAINING SHIP. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. Ottawa, April 5. H. 11.5. Egeria, a surveying vessel of 940 ions, which has been at Estjuimalt since 1008, is to be bought from the Imperial authorities by the Canadian Government * r or a training ship on the Pacific Coast. 'Last session the Dominion Parliament *ft™ £600,000 for preliminary expenses attending the organisation of a Department of the Navy, work on which is proceeding apace. The second-class cruiser Niobe, purchased from the British Admiralty, is now stationed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she is being used as a training ship lor seamen, stokers, and the like, but will also be included as a fighting unit in- the Canadian Atlantic squadron. The Rainbow, a smaller vessel, bought from the Admiralty, has her headquarters at Esquimalt, British Columbia, which, like Halifax, was once a British naval station, but has been taken Over and is being maintained as such by the Canadian Government. The Rainbow and the Egeria will serve as training 6hips on the Pacific Coast, and be employed when 'occasion requires in the fishery protection service. _ It is the intention of Canada to build four cruisers of the improved Bristol type and six destroyers of the improved Rivertype as a nucleus. They are to Tie built in Canada, and several British firms will tender. One or more of these firms is preparing to build dry docks in accordance with the Act which subsidises"such works. At the outset the steel plates and guns needed will probably be supplied from England. A plate mill has been erected at the large works of the Dominion Iron and Coal Company at Sydney, Capo Breton, and there is talk of putting a ihipyard there.