SPEEDY VESSEL.
NEW DESTROYER LAUNCHED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 19. The first new destroyer to be built since the war, the Ambuscade, wias commissioned at Chatham to-day for service in the Atlantic Fleet. On her trials the Ambuscade has proved ♦ipable of maintaining her designed speed of 37. knots. She is to be ready to leave for Harwich on April 2(5 for a settling down cruise before assembling with the ships of the Atlantic Fleet at the end of spring leave. She is equipped with four 4-7 inch guns and two 2-]x>under pompoms.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 April 1927, Page 5
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94SPEEDY VESSEL. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 April 1927, Page 5
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