AUSTRALIAN DESTROYER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16099, 13 December 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN DESTROYER.

LAUNCH AT SYDNEY. SvjfAN i N THE WATER. (Received December 12, 7.30 p.m.) Sydney, December 11. The destroyer Swan has been launched. The Swan is of 700 tons displacement and 12,000 horse-power. She was built at the Commonwealth dockyard in Sydney, and is the first of the three destroyers being built in Australia to be launched. The destroyers Yarra, Parramatta, and Warrego were built in Britain and launched in 1910 and 1911, the Warrego, however, being brought in sections to Australia and reconstructed. All the ships of tho first section of the Australian Navy are now off the stocks, except the destroyers Derwent and Terrene, which are being built in Sydney. The ships comprised in the first section number 21. of which the principal are the battle-cruiser Australia, the second-class cruisers Melbourne. Sydney, Brisbane (recently launched at Sydney), and Encounter, and the light cruiser Pioneer, with six destroyers and two sub marines, both of which have been lost during the war. The report furnished by Sir Reginald Henderson provides ultimately for 52 ships, to be completed bv 1953.