DESTROYERS AND GUNBOATS
LAUNCHINGS IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) Received January 21. 12.5 p.m. RUGBY. Jan. 20. Two destroyers of the K class, the Kelvin and the Kipling, were launched on the Clyde to-day. At Southampton, the river gunboat Grasshopper, the latest example of the type to which the Woodcock and the Woodlark, the first naval vessels to navigate the upper Yangtse River, belong, was also launched.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 10
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