ANTI-SUBMARINE EXERCISES
Australian-Based Ships Coining Here (NHZ. Press Association) WILLINGTON, March 20. A Royal Navy submarine and a Royal Australian Navy frigate will cross the Tasman next month to join units of the Royal New Zealand Navy and the Royal New Zealand Air Force in anti-submarine exercises. The submarine is H.M.S. Anchorite, which is based at Sydney, and is one of a squadron which provide "targets” for the anti-submarine forces of Australia and New Zealand.
The frigate is H.MA.S Quiberon, one of four 2000ton ships built as destroyers and converted for anti-sub-marine purposes. Anchorite and the Quiberon will arrive in Auckland on April 16. At the beginning of May they will join New Zealand ships and aircraft in exclusive exercises using the newly surveyed submarine exercise area off Kawau Island.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29468, 21 March 1961, Page 20
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