H.M.S. LABURNUM
SLOOP RECOMMISSIONED [PEE PHEBB ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, April 14. Following the departure of practically her whole ships company for England this week, and the arrival of a new draft by the Rangitata, 11.M.5. Laburnum was recommissioned yesterday afternoon. The new draft, which was drawn from the Plymouth depot, consisted of three officers, one warrant officer and S 3 petty officers and' men. Commander A. 11. Maxwell-Hyslop and two officers -cmain in the sloop from the last commission. The present ship’s company, it is<
expected, will eventually return to England in her when she is replaced by a modern vessel probably next year. Lieutenant-Commander D. Ingram, in command of the draft, was until lately in command of a vessel of the sixth marine flotilla at Portsmouth. Lieutenant A. R. Kennedy was last in the battleship Rodney, and SubLieutenant D. Herrick in the trawler Colne. Warrant-Officer S. C. Moon was' in the destroyer Thanet.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1934, Page 2
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