NEW CRUISERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 255, 27 October 1928, Page 9

NEW CRUISERS.

Trials Of Canberra And

London.

RESULTS KEPT SECRET.

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, October 26.

The 10,000-ton cruiser Canberra, a sister ship of the Australia, which has recently been at Plymouth for trials, is now at Cromarty. This week she is carrying out gunnery and other exercises in Moray Firth with vessels of the Atlantic Fleet.

The Canberra is due at Portsmouth on November 1, and will finally sail for Australia to join the Royal Australian Navy on December 4. The latest ship in the British Navy to bear the name London is now undergoing her trials, the result of which will be kept secret, in accordance with the modern Admiralty practice. As soon as the trials are completed the London is to go out to the Mediterranean asflagship of one of the cruiser squadrons there. The vessel is one of the 10,000ton county class of cruisers, and not one of the 8000-ton city class. The City of London has always been very keenly interested in ships named after it. These have been numerous, both armed merchantmen and ships of the regular Navy. The last warship with this name was the 18-knot battleship of 15,000 tons, which distinguished itself at the Dardanelles in 1915, and afterwards cooperated with the Italian fleet based on Taranto, the southern Italian port. After the armistice she was broken up-