TORPEDO LOST

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 233, 14 September 1934, Page 8

TORPEDO LOST

Found by an Aeroplane By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, September 13. A torpedo which was fired from tho warship Dunedin, the flagship of BearAdmiral Burges-Watson during exercises in Ijauraki Gulf on Wednesday went astray after the occasional habit of its kind, and wns not recovered un til this morning. The torpedoes are valued at over £2OOO, nnd owing to the early departure of the Dunedin for Australia, the recovery of the lost projectile was a matter of considerable importance. In company with other ships of the division, the Diomede, Laburnum and the Admiralty trawler Wakakura, the Dunedin went out into the gulf last Monday for the second period of gunnery exercises. During the final ever cists yesterday the two cruisers took part in a combined torpedo attack in ! which 12 torpedoes were fired at a mov ing target. After the attack the cruisers set eut to retrieve the torpedoes, but one fire’ from the Dunedin could not be found. Word was received this morning from u seaplane that the truant Lad teen t ghted floating peacefully on the sur-

face near Little Barrier Island, and sweeping operations immediately ceased. Tbe cruisers leave Auckland together on Monday for Sydney, arriving next Friday and sailing from Sydney on October G. They will bo at Hobart from October 8 to 16, and will then act with the ships of the Royal Australian Navy as the royal escort to Prince Henry.