H.M.A.S. MELBOURNE SAILS.
BOUND FOR MEDITERRANEAN. Looking smart and trim after her overhaul in Cockatoo Dock, H.M.A.s. Melbourne left her moorings in Farm Cove last week on tho voyage to the Mediterranean, where she will join the British Fleet. It is expected that the cruiser will be away for 12 months. Meanwhile she will be replaced by H.M.s. Delhi, which is due early nex. year from the East. Although the Melbourne is expected to be with the Mediterranean Fleet for a year only, her midshipmen will remain abroad for four years. It is intended that they shall see service aboard British men-o'-war, and so obtain the full knowledge of the manoeuvres of a combined fleet—conditions which are impossible in Australian waters, where the number of active units is generally limited to three cruisers and a similar number of destroyers in one flotilla.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 285, 2 December 1925, Page 10
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