THE ATLANTIC FLEET
SPRING MANCEUVRES CRUISE TO BE CURTAILED. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright* RUGBY. January 5. The ships of the Atlantic Fleet tow day and to-morrow leave Portsmouth, Chatham, and Devonport to concentrate for spring exercises. For reasons of economy the cruise will be somewhat curtailed, and the ships will return to England in the middle of March, a fortnight earlier than usual. Exercises will be carried out whilst the fleet is proceeding south towards Gibraltar, and in a few days a detachment consisting of the Hood, the Repulse, the Dorsetshire, the Norfolk, and the Exeter, and the York, under Rearadmiral Tomkinson, will leave the main fleet on a visit to the British West Indies.
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Evening Star, Issue 20994, 7 January 1932, Page 8
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117THE ATLANTIC FLEET Evening Star, Issue 20994, 7 January 1932, Page 8
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