THE LAST BIG FRENCH WARSHIP TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND was the armoured cruiser Victor Hugo which with the Jules Michelet, did a world trade cruise in 1922. The Victor Hugo, with her two sets of funnels, set wide apart, is a typical pre-war French fighting ship, just as the Tourville is the embodiment of everything that is modern.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 732, 3 August 1929, Page 30
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58THE LAST BIG FRENCH WARSHIP TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND was the armoured cruiser Victor Hugo which with the Jules Michelet, did a world trade cruise in 1922. The Victor Hugo, with her two sets of funnels, set wide apart, is a typical pre-war French fighting ship, just as the Tourville is the embodiment of everything that is modern. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 732, 3 August 1929, Page 30
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