TRUANT TORPEDO

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 65, 14 September 1934, Page 13

TRUANT TORPEDO

LOST AND FOUND

WARSHIPS' EXERCISES

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, September 13,

A torpedo which was fired from the warship Dunedin, flagship of EearAdmiral Burges Watson, during exercises in Hauraki Gulf on Wednesday, went astray after the occasional habit of its kind, and was not recovered until this morning. Torpedoes are valued at over £2000, and owing to the early departure of the Dunedin for Australia the speedy recovery of the lost projectile was a matter of considerable importance.

In company with other ships of the division, the Diomede, the Laburnum, and the Admiralty trawlor Wakakura, the Dunedin went out into tho gulf last Monday for the second period of gunnery exercises. During the final exercises yesterday the two cruisers took part in a combined torpedo attack, in which 12 torpedoes were fired at a moving target.

After the attack the cruisers set out to retrieve the torpedoes, but one which had been fired from the Dunedin could not be found. .

Word was received this morning from a seaplane' that the truant had been sighted floating peacefully .on the surface near Little Barrier Island, and sweeping operations were immediately ceased. .

The cruisers leave Auckland together on Monday for Sydney, arriving next Friday. Sailing from Sydney on October 6, they will be at Hdbart from October 8 to 16 and will then act with the ships of the Koyal Australian Navy as a royal escort to Prince Henry.