THE TRAINING SHIP

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 268, 8 August 1919, Page 6

THE TRAINING SHIP

SUCCESSOR TO THE AMOKURA,

The Prime Minister mentioned in Auckland that New Zealand's new training ship, to reduce the Amokura, probably would be a sicop of war of between 2500 and 3000 tons. A vessel of the Talbot class had been offered, but had, been considered to bo too big and costly. The. choice lay now between a cruiser of the Andromache class and the 6loop. The light cruisers of the Talbot class are about twenty-five years old. They are nineteen-knot ressels of 5000 tons, armed with eleven 6-inch guns of old pattern and fifteen lighter 1 guns. Their complement is 450 men. The Andromache, built in 1890, is a twenty-knot, 3400 ton'cruiser with very light armament. Seven ships of tins olass wore used as mine-layers during the war. They aro roomy, seaworthy boats, with a complement of 273 men, which could bo' reduced under peace conditions. Th« sloop indicated by Mr. Massey cannot bo identified in the Navy list. The tonnage mentioned is unusually large for o vessel of the sloop type.