H.M.S. WAKAKURA.
DOMINION'S MINE-SWEEPER. THE VOYAGE TO AUCKLAND. [FROM our own correspondent.] LONDON,« June 15. Out of Portland Harbour to-day there sailed H.M.S. Wakakura, the small minesweeper which is to make the journey to Auckland to join the New Zealand Navy. Lieutenant R. A. Macdonald, R.N., is in command and he has under him another officer, a warrant officfii and a crew of twenty. It will be an uncomfortable and possibly a perilous voyage, for every available space has been stocked with coal so that the ' ship may make what are for her long leaps from port to j>ort. The first place of call will be Cape Verde on the west coast of Africa. From there the Wakakura will sail for Trinidad, then on to Colon. Salina Cruz, up the American coast as far north as San Diego. The next stage will be to Honolulu. Possibly she will call at Pago Pago,'but definitely at . Fiji and so on to Auckland. Naturally at each of these ports coal will he taken on. It is hoped, if all goes well, to reach Auckland about October 25.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19384, 20 July 1926, Page 15
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184H.M.S. WAKAKURA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19384, 20 July 1926, Page 15
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