THE HOME FLEET
CONVOY EXERCISES (British Official Wireless! RUGBY, 26th March. During the latter stage of the Home Fleet’s passage from Gibraltar to England a convoy exercise will be held. One side representing a convoy will be attacked by submarines and shore-bas-ed aircraft in the English Channel. CRASH OF FLYING BOAT (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph-Copyright! (Received 29th March. 12.7 p.m.) LONDON, 28th March.
A naval flying-boat with a crew of six, participating in combined naval and aerial exercises, crashed at sea near Brest. A journalist, Mr A. E. Barlow, who was observing the manoeuvres on behalf of the journal “The Aeroplane,” was also aboard His body has been recovered
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 March 1938, Page 5
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110THE HOME FLEET Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 March 1938, Page 5
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