SLOOP WELLINGTON

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 121, 15 February 1935, Page 13

SLOOP WELLINGTON

Coming Visit to Capital FIVE-DAY STAY IN MAY The new Imperial convoy sloop H.M.S. Wellington, which left England early this month to replace H.M.S. Laburnum on the New Zealand station, will reach Auckland on May 20. Her ports of call on the voyage to New Zealand will be Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Port Said, Aden, Colombo, Singapore, Batavia, Bali, Thursday Island and Sydney. After leaving Sydney the sloop will call at Wellington, instead of coming direct to Auckland, because she bears the name of Wellington. H.M.S. Leith, which arrived at the end of last year to replace H.M.S. Veronica, paid, a visit to the Scottish port after which she is named before coming to New Zealand. It is customary for cities after which vessels of the Royal Navy are named to present an engraved plate or* some similar token to the ship. The sloop will be at Wellington from Muy 13 to May 17. when she will leave for Auckland.

Like the Leith, the Wellington is an oil-burner, and is also similar to the other vessel in tonnage, length and armament. The Wellington was built at Devonport, England, and was launched on May 29 last year, in the presence of the High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir James Parr.