NAVAL EXERCISES
♦ SHELLING OLD BATTLESHIP WIRELESSLY CONTROLLED Australian Press Association. MALTA, 25th May. A feature of tho naval.exercises was tho shelling of the old battleship Centurion, which was wirelcssly controlled. It has been for several days attacked by shells of all weights and calibres, but without a man on board tho ship dodges, altors her speed, and course, and puts up smolec screens. Tho ex-battleship Centurion, scrappod under tho Washington Treaty, but j allowed^ to bo retained for non-com' batant service, was completed on 7fch November, 1927, at Portsmouth Dockyard for duty as a, target ship, in succession to the Agamemnon, which was scrapped at tho end of 1926. Tho Centurion was completed in. "May, 1913, and served all through tho war in tho Grand Fleet, boing present at Jutland. Captain B. S. Macfarlane, who took command of her last July, when, she waß commissioned for trials, was formerly in command of the cruiser Carlisle in China. .
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 9
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157NAVAL EXERCISES Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 9
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