TORPEDO LOST
DEFECTIVE MECHANISM
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 20.
A torpedo fired from the cruiser Diomede during exercises in the Hauraki'Gulf on Thursday disappeared in deep water and has not been recovered. The torpedo had travelled only a short distance when something apparently went wrong with its mechanism and it .plunged below. A search was made by the warship and from the air, but without result, and the torpedo is regarded as being definitely lost.
When new torpedoes are valued at £2500, but the one that has been lost was 18 years old and consequently was of considerably less value. It will be replaced out of stores.
A further day's exercises will be carried out by the^Dunedin and Diomede next week.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 72, 21 September 1935, Page 15
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122TORPEDO LOST Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 72, 21 September 1935, Page 15
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