TO SAIL IN DECEMBER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 496, 27 October 1928, Page 9

TO SAIL IN DECEMBER

H.M.A.S. CANBERRA NEW AUSTRALIAN CRUISER British Official Wireless RUGBY, Thursday. The 10,000-ton cruiser Canberra, i sister-ship of PI.M.A.S. Australia, which has recently been at Plymouth for trials, is now at Cromarty. This week she is carrying out gunnery and other exercises in Moray. Firth with vessels of the Atlantic Fleet. The Canberra is at Portsmouth on November 1, and will finally sail for Australia to join the Royal Australian Navy on December 4. The Australia, the first of the Commonwealth’s new cruisers, reached Sydney last Tuesday, having called at Wellington for a few days on her way from England via Panama. The Canberra will sail via the Cape of Good Hope, calling at Capetown and Durban. NEW H.M.S. LONDON PREDECESSOR AT DARDANELLES British Official Wireless RUGBY, Thursday. The latest ship in the British Navy to bear the name London, is now undergoing her trials, the result of which will be kept secret, in accordance with the modern Admiralty practice. As soon as the trials are completed the London is to go out to the Medit erranean as flagship of one of the cruiser squadrons there. The vessel is one of the 10,000-ton county class of cruisers, and not one of the 8,000ton city class. The City of London has always been very keenly interested in skips named after it. These have been numerous, both armed merchantmen and ships of the regular Navy. The latest warship with this name was the 18-knot battleship of 15,000 tons which distinguished itself at the Dardanelles in. 1915, and afterwai-ds co-operated with the Italian fleet based on Taranto, the southern Italian port. After the armistice she was broken up.