CANADA'S NAVY.
New Vessels Replacements
Not Additions.
REPLY TO REQUEST.
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)
(Received 12 noon.)
OTTAWA, November 13.
In replying to a request from the Alberta section of the Canadian Labour party to the Government to abandon the plan to purchase two new destroyers, Commander Hose, the Director of the Naval Services, stated that the vessels were replacements not additions. They will replace the obsolete Patriot and Patrician. The new vessels are of a defensive character with a 5000-mile endurance limit.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 270, 14 November 1928, Page 7
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