A TARGET SHIP
WIRELESSLY CONTItOLED Major-General Bruehe, the- military .attache at Australia House, London, has returned] from Plymouth, -where he watched: the twoday firing practice of shore batteries ab the wirelessly-controlled target ship Centurion. It was the first time that shoro batteries were used against the Centurion, wliidhi cruised up and down a 10-mile course nine miles off shore. It was uncanny to see the old ship turning and] ,zigzagging to escape the salvoes. There a\)j» no life aboard except a few obstinate cats who refused to leave.
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2304, 5 September 1929, Page 3
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88A TARGET SHIP Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2304, 5 September 1929, Page 3
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