AUSTRALIAN NAVY
LAYING OK THREE KEELS. (Received Last Night, 0.0 o clock.) SYDNEY, January 26. The dockvard at Cockatoo Island was yesterday handed over by New South Wales to the. Commonwealth. The understanding-is that 11: wtll be available for repairing ships be.ion.gvng to any section of the Empire s navy. The ceremony ef laving three keels for the Australian Navy was also performed. Two torpedo boat destroyers will.be named the, Derwent and' Torrens, and a protected cruiser the Brisbane. Mr Pearce. Minister of Defence, in the course of a "pooch, stated this was only a small commencement. Critics were dubbing it a "mosquito fleet," but, Ihev must remember that the British Navy originated' with a fleet of gallevs. He believed that- Australia o""ld develop similarly. He was- confident that the time wa s s not far distant wh°n tb n y 'would be able to build even Dreadnoughts. here.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 January 1913, Page 5
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149AUSTRALIAN NAVY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 January 1913, Page 5
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