NEW NAVAL OFFICERS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 196, 2 August 1934, Page 9

NEW NAVAL OFFICERS

Arrival at Auckland By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, August 1. New officers for the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy arrived at Auckland by the Rangitane. They are Captain L. Vaughan Morgan, who will relieve Captain C. Sinclair-Thomson as second naval member of the Naval Board in Wellington; Mr E. F. 8. Fisher, naval stores officer, and Mr G. McGloshrie, member of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors. The two last-named will be attached to the Devonport naval base for a period of four years. Mr Fisher will be in charge of stores at the Devonport base, a post which will assume considerable importance when the Government’s plan for expanding naval activities takes definite shape. He has previously served in South Africa and Ceylon. Mr McGloshrie will be in charge of the engineering constructional and refitting activities at the base. The Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, to which Mr McGloshrie belongs, is responsible for designing and building most of the ships of the Royal Navy. Mr McGloshrie has lately been engaged on submarine designing, but before that he was associated with the building of two of the latest class of sloops, sister ships to the Leith, which will arrive on the New Zealand station in October. Mr McGloshrie said that the new sloops were an improvement on ships of the Rochester class, which themselves had proved highly successful.