TARGET SHIP’S CREW
NAVY’S MOST UNCOMFORTABLE JOB SIDELIGHT ON ATLANTIC MANOEUVRES (“Times” Cables.) London, October 2. The Navy’s most uncomfortable job must surely be that of the crew of the target ship Centurion, says the Naval correspondent of “The Times,” attending the Atlantic Fleet manoeuvres. It is an almost daily round of placing belongings behind armour, abandoning ship, watching her riddled mercilessly, recovering possessions, and repairing the damage. To-day the Centurion was pounded by the battle-cruisers Renown, Repulse, and Tiger, bombed by aircraft, and finally subjected to a close-range night attack by H.M.S. Nelson, which, steaming without lights, sighted the Centurion by searchlights at a distance ot two thousand yards. The Nelson’s sixinch shells threw up fountains of spray, and showers of sparks as they struck the armoured hull, funnels, and superstructure. After that the destroyer Shikari, which wirelessly operates the Centurion, switched on the lights and the Centurion’s crew returned to make the best of their muchbattered quarters.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 8, 4 October 1929, Page 7
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159TARGET SHIP’S CREW Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 8, 4 October 1929, Page 7
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