AMERICAN NAVAL CRUISE
POWERFUL St.H’ADKGN. DETAILS OF ITINERARY IWRI.ISIIKD. WASH INC Vox. Not embe i 22. Mr C. Wilbur. Secretary of the Navy 1, l ( lav made a statement dealing with Hie licet’s t isil t i Australia and NVtv /calami. For the lirst time, the Mm-i-:.T published a lull tentative schedule of the vessels renuni-ilig tile licet ami detailed its itinerary.
Mr Wilbur said that, after the winter mauicnvies in the Raeilic oi the combined Heels of the I'nilcd Stales bail been eomnleled, it was proposed to send a squadron oil a visit ol four tesv to New /calami and Australia.
••This will be the lirst time, since 1 <f(is. that our fleet has visited these d,Onions." Mr Wilbur continued, ■quid the lirst lime for many years t hat the licet lias made so extended it cruise. The experience that will be gamed during such a cruise will be ol inestimable value and the visit, will also renew ,mr acquaintance with the people ol the dominions and extend to them the courtesy their friendship inspires, me licet will be composed of: Rattle.ship Division No. 3--Retinsvl-vatiia. Oklahoma. Nevada. Arizona.
Battleship Division No. I. including the New Mexico, Mississippi, (Idaho. California. Battleship Division No. 3. the West Virginia. Tennessee. Maryland and ('olorado.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19241125.2.37
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1924, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
211AMERICAN NAVAL CRUISE Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1924, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in