SURVEY SHIPS
FALLEN INTO DISUSE
ADMIRALTY PERTURBED
LONDON, 10th October.
Admiralty circles are perturbed at tho continued disuse of the Australian survey ships, Geranium and Moresby. The Morosby was fitted out at a cost of * 120,000 and lent to Australialn 1925. Operations were suspended in 1930, but tho maintenance of the vessels is absorbing £50,000 a year, which is borne by the Commonwealth. The Royal Navy, responsible for chartering the seas of the world, maintains four ships in home waters and four abroad. Canada maintains her own. Australia and Now Zealand are tho only Dominions without survey ships, which they aro believed to need more than any other country, .
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 13
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109SURVEY SHIPS Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 13
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