H.M.S. DUNEDIN

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 9

H.M.S. DUNEDIN

GOING TO ENGLAND NEXT

MONTH

SIX MONTHS' EEHT

H.M.S. Dunedin, flagship of the NewZealand Division of the .Royal Navy, will leave for England next month for refit and will bo out of Dominion waters for six months. On her departure, Commodore G. T. C. P. r %> will transfer his pendant to rl.M.a. Diornede. The date on which the Dunediu will sail has not yet been fixed. Certain of the officers on H.M.S. Dunedin will transfer to the Diomede with Commodore Swabey, and the formal notice of these appointments will bo gazetted later. Officers and men on the New Zealand station whose time, of service in these waters has expired will return to England by the Dunedin, and she will come back to New Zealand with practically a new crew.

In last night's "Gazette" it was announced that the following appointments in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy havo been approved:— lieutenant (B) Oswald John Gerard, R.N., to H.M.S. Dunedin, to date 3rd November, 1926. Lieutenant Ernest William Recp, R.N., to H.M.S. Philomel, for duty in trawler Wakakvira, whilst on passage to New Zealand, and, on arrival in Now Zealand, to H.M.S. Dunedin,' as from date of joining. Lieutenant Eric Alvington Addis, R.N., to H.M.S. Philomel, as from date of joining. Mr. Alec Lee Hobden, warrant engineer, E.N., to H.M.S. Dunedin, to date 3rd November, 1926.

Mr. Frederick Jeremiah Cummins, warrant supply officer, E.N., to H.M.S. Philomel, to date 3rd November, 1926.

- Mr. Herbert Henry Bawlings, warrant telegraphist, M.8.E., S.N., to H.M.S. Dunedin and to H.M.S. Diomede, on transfer of Commodore's broad pendant, to^date Srd November, 1926.

It will bo observed that in the notice reference is made to the Commodore's broad "pendant." At first glance it would appear that a typographical error has been made, and that the correct word should be "pennant." As a matter of fact, both terms are accurate, but in the Navy "pendant" is the official expression, although "pennant" is used for ordinary purposes. The Commodore's pennant, or pendant, is a broad flag with two tails at the end, and it carries the St. George's cross. If the commodore be first-class the flag is plain, if of the second-class the flag has a red ball in the upper canton next the staff.