LOST-A TORPEDO
FIRED FROM DUNEDIN IN HAURAKI GULF SEARCH BY MINE-SWEEPER A search for a torpedo worth £2,000, lost from H.M.S. Dunedin in the Hauraki Gulf during exercises toward the end of May, is providing practical work for the mine-sweeping gear of H.M.S. Wakakura, which has a party of Royal Naval Volunteer Reservists aboard. The torpedo does not contain explosive, but care must be taken that the delicate propellers are not damaged. After losing the momentum of discharge, torpedoes usually remain afloat, and are recovered. In this instance, however, the torpedo sank in about 20 fathoms of water several miles off Flat Rock. The Dunedin had to leave for its Island cruise after a few days’ search at the time, and the Wakakura was then undergoing a refit. The propellers a£e an important part of a torpedo, and careless handling will damage them considerably. The cruiser carries 12 torpedoes, worth about £24,000, and engages in practice with these weapons of war in her gunnery training periods in the waters of the Gulf.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1044, 7 August 1930, Page 16
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172LOST-A TORPEDO Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1044, 7 August 1930, Page 16
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