AUSTRALIA'S NAVY.
IAYINQ THE KEELS, 1?R0M SMALL BEGINNINGS. &y ToloErapli-Press Association—Copyriclit London, January 24. Tho battlo-oruiser Australia, 19,000 tons, bf tho Australian fleet, will commence her trials on February S. concluding at Spit- • head on March 1. ' : A HUMBLE BEGINNING. < • (Hco. January .26, 5.5 p.m.) . Sdney, January 20. Tho dockyard at Cockatoo Island was yesterday .'handed over by the New South Wales Government to tho Commonwealth Government, m tho understanding that it shall be available for repairing ships belonging to any; section of the Empire's Navy. V The ceremony of laying the three keels . bf'-"the. Australian .Navy 'was also, per-' formed.' •. < ' • ! ' Tho torpedo , boat destroyers Derwent find Torrens, and the protected cruiser Brisbane,' said Senator PeArw/ (Federal Minister for Defence). were only a small commencement. Critics dubbing, them their mosquito fleet must remember that .'. the British Navy originated .in a fleet of galleys. Ha believed that Australia could develop similarly, and felt confident that the time was not far distant when; Aus- ■ tralia would bo able to build even Dreadnoughts here. . :
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1658, 27 January 1913, Page 5
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171AUSTRALIA'S NAVY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1658, 27 January 1913, Page 5
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