ATLANTIC FLEET
PORTION TO VISIT BRITISH WEST INDIAN PORTS. ' (British Official Wireless.) (Received 9, 12.30 p.m.) Rugby, Dec. 8. It has been decided that portion of the Atlantic Fleet comprising tho battle cruisers Hood and Repulse and the second cruiser squadron H.M.S. Dorsetshire, Norfolk, Exeter and York, shall visit British West Indian ports during the coming spring. The ships will be detached from the flag of tho com-mander-in-chief off the north coast of Spain on the Bth or 9th January. After exercises have been carried out the commander-in-chief of H.M.S. Nelson and the remainder of the Atlantic Fleet will use Gibraltar as their main base until the return of the ships to their home port in March.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 305, 9 December 1931, Page 7
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