GOING HOME TO THE SCRAP HEAP.
4 POWERFUL SAILS IN DECEMBER. Arrangements have been made for the flagship Powerful to leavo Australasian waters for tho scrap heap in England in Dcconiber; meanwhile she will visit Melbourne and New Zealand. The Powerful will sail from Sydney on December 15 for Colombo, where she will meet 11.M.5. Drake, tho now flagship for the station, and the latter vessel will then come on to Sydney, probably calling at Melbourne oil route. Tho Powerful goes Home via tho Suez Canal. When tho last English mail left, tho Drake was still in the dockyard hands at Portsmouth, the sum of .£II,OOO having been allotted for her refit preparatory to poinp out to Australia. A good deal of the internal machinery has been replaced by new parts, the boilors have been thoroughly overhauled, and the engines taken to pieces, and it is understood that some alterations will be made in tho armament. The Drake lons held tho reputation of being the fleetest cruiser in the Royal Navy, but, in point of speed, she has now long been left beliind. _________
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1257, 12 October 1911, Page 4
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183GOING HOME TO THE SCRAP HEAP. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1257, 12 October 1911, Page 4
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