A RECORD PASSAGE
TWO DESTROYERS
CANADA UPHOLDS NAVAL TRADITIONS
'■■■'■(British Official Wireless.} (Received November 4, 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, November 3. The Canadian Department of National Defence has announced the arrival in eastern Canadian waters of two destroyers from their base at Esquimault, British Columbia. These vessels have completed what is probably a record 'passage for the 7000----mile voyage. On two hours' notice the two ships of war set out under orders to proceed to the Atlantic seaboard and, in spite of one day's delay in making the transit of the Panama Canal, and of other halts en route, they covered the distance in 14 days. This voyage indicates that Canada's Navy is maintaining the high traditions of his Majesty's naval service in preparedness arid efficiency.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1939, Page 13
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125A RECORD PASSAGE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1939, Page 13
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