CRUISER FROBISHER
SEA-GOING TRAINING SHIP
CADETS AS DECK HANDS
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, 17th January. The cruiser Frobisher, 9750 tons, left Chatham to-day for the West Indies as a new sea-going training ship for cadets of Dartmouth and public school entries. There were 113 cadets on board. ■ During her three. months' cruise she will visit the Azores, Trinidad, Grenada, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Antigua, and Bermuda, returning to Chatham on 7th April.. The ship's company is reduced to the bare minimum necessary for supervision of the working of the ship, so that1 the young officers will be needed as working hands. They will live and work as ordinary, seamen.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 9
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108CRUISER FROBISHER Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 9
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