ROYAL REVIEW OF RESERVE FLEET
Complete Navy in Itself IMPRESSIVE ASSEMBLY AT WEYMOUTH SHIPS PRESENT BRILLIANT SPECTACLE (By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, August 9. SlumltaiH'ously today the King held his inspection of Britain’s great naval reserve fleet while 1300 oi the bombers and fighters of the Royal Air Force continued on a larger scale the unprecedented mock' aerial war over southern England, including London. Willi the British fleets scattered in Home and foreign waters and in a full state of preparedness, going about their normal occasions, the fact that the King this morning was able to review 133 ships of the reserve fleet, a complete navy in itself, serves to emphasise the extent of. the nation s lull sea. power. Stretching in 14 lines in the wide sweep ol Weymouth Bay, which happily was sunlit after a dismal and rainy two months, the ships presented a brilliant spectacle.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1939, Page 5
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