CUT ADRIFT.
BY NAVAL RATINGS.
BRITISH DESTROYER.
Insubordination on Ships En Route to Australia.
POOD AND PAT AT FAULT,
(United P.A.-Electrie Telegraph-Copyright)
(Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, November 9.
The Australian Press Association understands that there has been some insubordination aboard the destroyers en route to the Commonwealth.
This is sa 0 c c^ue 'ho l°werpaid English ratings bound for the China station resenting the long training given the Australians on the way, in which they have had to join. Further, the men s re disgruntled at the food, and also complain of overcrowding.
The discontent came to a head when shore leave was given at Gibraltar, after which the malcontents cut the Stuart adrift from the mole and threw ammunition and lifebuoys overboard. Divers were engaged for half a day salvaging the gear. Two submarine ratings were dismissed and several others are under charge.
Oh October 17 the destroyers Vampire and Voyager left Portsmouth to join the flotilla-leader Stuart and the destroyers Vendetta and Waterhen from Chatham and ■ Devonport. The whole flotilla then sailed for Sydney, where they are due on December 3.1. All the vessels .were lent by the British to the Australian Navy.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 266, 10 November 1933, Page 7
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