LABURNUM TO GO TO SINGAPORE
REPLACEMENT BY NEAV SLOOP (TRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, February 5. Assigned for the scrap heap this year, the Imperial sloop Laburnum has been given a new lease of life. Instead of going to Plymouth to be broken up she will proceed from Auckland to Singapore, where she will be used for an indefinite period as a drill ship for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. She will be replaced by a new sloop, the Wellington, a sister ship of the Leith, which is now on the New Zealand station. The Laburnum has the distinction of being the last of the independent commands in the British navy to burn coal and wear sail.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21391, 6 February 1935, Page 12
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