PRACTICE FOR GUNNERS
WIRELESS CONTROLLED TARGET SHIP (By Eleotrio Telegraph-Copyright) (Australian A N.Z. Cable Association) (Received 9th Nov., ,12.5 p.m.) LONDON, Bth Nov. Numerous Australians who are attached to the Atlantic fleet for the purposes of gunnery training will next week have shooting at the , uncanny, elusive old battleship Centurion, which will he a target sljip. She is installed with new perfect apparatus to which a controlling destroyer will send a wireless ray, in obedience to which the Centurion will deviate, turn,, speed up, and slow down in such a way as to keep the gunners busy. ■
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 November 1927, Page 5
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