CRUISER’S LAST TRIP
MELBOURNE AT PORTSMOUTH TO BE BROKEN UP British Wireless—Press Assn.—Copyright RUGBY. Saturday. The Australian cruiser Melbourne, which is to be sold and whose officers and ship’s company will join the new cruiser Australia, which is now- being built at Glasgow, arrived at Portsmouth on Thursday evening, and exchanged salutes with the Comman-der-In-Chief at Portsmouth. In preparation for her disposal, the cruiser’s guns, with the exception of the quickfirers for saluting purposes, have been removed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 330, 16 April 1928, Page 9
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