PROGRAMME FOR NAVAL REVIEW AT SPITHEAD
(Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 24. The Admiralty informs the Australian Associated Press that the official Coronation naval review programme at Spithead will be as follows: The Mediterranean Fleet will arrive on May 13, the Home Fleet on May 15, foreign ships on May 18 and the Reserve Fleet on May 19. The review will occur on May 20. The King will visit the flagship in the Southampton on May 21. British ships in the review will include 10 battleships, four aircraft carriers, two battle cruisers, 15 cruisers, 60 destroyers, 21 submarines, and innumerable miscellaneous craft. The Dominion ships will be: Canada, the destroyers Saguenay, and Skeena; New Zealand, the cruiser Leander; India, the sloop Indus. Five liners, carying 10,000 Government guests, including Dominion representatives, will fellow the Royal Yacht, with the King aboard, down the line through the warships.
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Northern Advocate, 25 March 1937, Page 7
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