AUSTRALIAN CRUISER
Australia will add a new cruiser to her naval strength on October 6, when the British cruiser H.M.S. Apollo will become H.M.A.S. Hobart. The crew for the Hobart will be transferred from the seaplane carrier H.M.A.S. Albatross, which was due at Devonport naval dockyard on September 9, and which is being taken over by the British Admiralty as part payment for two cruisers which the Commonwealth Government has purchased. The Hobart will be commissioned on October 6, when structural alterations will have'been made so that new highangle guns can be installed. The sec- ' ond cruiser, which will become HMA.S. Perth, will visit the United States in August, 1939, for the World Fair at New York. The crew for the ship will be sent from Australia on board a merchant ship. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 4
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