REPORT DENIED
Royalist’s Future (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 10. No decision had been made to scrap the cruiser H.M.N.Z.S. Royalist, the Navy Office said today. An Auckland message yesterday quoted informed sources as saying that stripping of the cruiser before tenders were called for the ship as scrap was expected to begin next month. The message said it was understood authority for the scrapping had been obtained from the Admiralty and that the Naval Board in Wellington would announce the decision to send the ship to the scrap yard within the next few weeks. The Navy Office said today that the ship would continue to be used at her berth at Auckland in a necessary training role. There had been no decision on her future past that point. “The decision about her ultimate disposal rests with the Royal Navy,” said a Navy Office spokesman.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30982, 11 February 1966, Page 12
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