LORD BRASSEY, ON KING GEORGE'S SOUND.
Is.-i letter tn tliu Times Lord Brassey points nut tin: importance and ease of fortifying King Gem go’s ’B'O nearest harbours urn I’ort Darwin iiml Adelaide respectively, 2000 ami I0(X> mill mill's away. Protection against first-class ironclads 1m think* mmoce.is;uy but swift uiiiiniiimre'j cruisers proving «*n our cunmercu would fin«| Albany vnry conv<mi«*nt f it not uulispmHit)ln f«»r coaling purpose.-*. I tlio la,t Russian scare a corvette anil sloop were iliitailcil fur its defence but imii tcnll) nf tlinir crews manning a shore battery would, in Lord I'.rassey's opinion, be more elhcient and be suggests tin; employment nf Marines and Marine artillery frnin the Australian rtipin, .mi who could be frequently relieved.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2373, 24 September 1887, Page 3
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118LORD BRASSEY, ON KING GEORGE'S SOUND. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2373, 24 September 1887, Page 3
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