CANADIAN DESTROYERS
RECORD VOYAGE COMPLETED. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] (Received November 4, 11.15 a.m.)' G RUGBY, November 3. The Canadian Department of National Defence has announced the arrival in Eastern Canadian waters of two destroyers from their base at Esquimalt, British Columbia. 'These vessels have completed what is probably a record passage for a '7OOO-;miles voyage. ,Oh two hours' notice, the two. ships of war set out under orders to proceed to the Atlantic seaboard, and, in spite of one day’s delay in making the transit of the Panama Canal, and of other halts en route, they covered the distance in 14 days. This voyage’ indicates that Canada’s navy is maintaining the high traditions of His Majesty’s naval service, in preparedness and efficiency."
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 November 1939, Page 7
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