’PLANES DESTROYED.
FIRE ON ARK ROYAL.
LONDON, April 16.
It is revealed that nine ’planes were destroyed on March 25 by a fire in the hangars of the aircraft-carrier Ark Royal when returning to Portsmouth from Gibraltar after the spring manoeuvres.
A Court of Inquiry was held, but lie result has not been disclosed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 116, 17 April 1939, Page 7
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54’PLANES DESTROYED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 116, 17 April 1939, Page 7
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