GERMAN CRUISER.
• SLOOP CORJIOEAK COMES HEBE. ; On the (lav after'H.M.S. Drake leaves Wellington for Sydney' the German cruiser Ccrmoraii is 'expected to arrive here. J !ifl Cormoran is a vess?l of IC3O tons, and carries eight -l-l-inch and five 1-pounder jfuus. Slio is credited with a speed of from 15 to 17 knots. In appearance. she is something like a British sloop of war, and at tlio time she was built (1592) had o:io funnol and two masts. The foTe-mast had two yards on it. Whether alterations in rig liavo hxn effected since that time remains to be seen when she conies here. After remaining ' at Wellington for eight days the. Cormoran leaves for Auckland. . " . ,■...
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1615, 5 December 1912, Page 6
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115GERMAN CRUISER. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1615, 5 December 1912, Page 6
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