BRITISH NAVY
ATLANTIC FLEET MANOEUVRES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 11 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 2. The Navy’s most uncomfortable job must he that ot the crew of the target ship Centurion, says the naval correspondent, who is attending the Atlantic Fleet manoeuvres, it is almost a daily round of placing belongings behind armour, abandoning the ship and watching her being riddled mercilessly, then recovering possession and repairing the damage. To-day the Centurion was pounded by the battle-cruisers Renown, Repulse and Tiger, and bombed by aircraft, and t.ien finally subjected at close range, to a night attack by the Nelson, which steaming without lights, sighted the Centurion by searchlights. At a distance of two thousand yards the Nelson’s six inch shells threw up fountains of spray and showers of sparks as they struck the armoured hull, funnels, and superstructure. Thereafter, the destroyer, Shikaii, which wirelessly operates the Centurion, switched on the lights and the Centurion’s crew returned to make the best of their much battered quarters.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1929, Page 5
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