DESTROYERS FOR AUSTRALIA
FIVE LOANED BY BRITAIN
ITINERARY ARRANGED
(United Press’ Association—By Electric TelegrapD Copyright.) LONDON, Sept. 29. With the arrival of a further torn officers and 179 ratings from Australia arrangements with regal’d to the destroyers for Australia al-e now well forward, and the itinerary has been arranged. After their departure from the different home ports oil October 17 for a rendezvous in the Channel tfje ships will arrive at Gibraltar on October 22. depart on October 24, visit Aden, Colombo and Singapore, and arrive at Darwin on December 8, 'Brisbane on December 17 and Sydney on December 21. . , T The crews will include 12 Royal Navy officers and 280 men who will disembark at Singapore for Far East stations, whereupon they will bei replaced bv a corresponding number of Royal Australian Navy officers and men, representing a considerable economy in passage money. The five destroyers have been loaned to Australia. They are the Stuart (under the command of Captain A. G. LilJery), Vampire (Commander Flow den) Waterhen (Lieutenant-Comma,nd-er Rosenthal), Vendetta (LieutenantCommander Donovan), Voyager (Lieu-tenant-Commander Stewart). Captain Lilley will have command of the destroyers while they are in Australian waters.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 30 September 1933, Page 9
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