H.M.S. LABURNUM
CAREER NOT ENDED YET
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, February 5,
Assigned to the scrapheap this year, the Imperial sloop Laburnum has been given a new lease of life. Instead of going to Plymouth to be broken up, she will proceed from Auckland to Singapore, where she is to be used for an indefinite period as a drill ship for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
She is to be replaced by a new sloop, the Wellington, a sister ship of H.M.S. Leith, now on the New Zealand station.
The Laburnum has the distinction of being the last of the independent commands in the British Navy to burn coal and wear sail.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 16
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