DESTROYERS FOR CHILE
LAST OF SIX LAUNCHED FIRST READY FOR VOYAGE British Official Wireless Reed. 9.5 a.m. RUGBY, Sunday. The Aldea, the last of six destroyers ordered by the Chilean Government from Thorny crofts, the well-known shipbuilders, was launched at Southampton yesterday. . At a subsequent luncheon Admiral Merino, of the Chilean Naval Commission, whose wife named the vessel, paid a high tribute to British workmanship as shown in the manner in which the contract had been carried out. The first of the six destroyers, the Serrano, is now almost ready to proceed to Chile, and her officers and crew were present at yesterday’s ceremonv. A telegram of good wishes was received from the officers and crew of another of the six destroyers, the Riquelme, which is now undergoing her trials on the Clyde.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 527, 3 December 1928, Page 9
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