AUSTRALIAN NAVY.
VESSELS TO BE SCRAPPED. DESTROYERS AND DkPOT SHIP. SYDNEY. Oct. 1. Five ships of the Australian Navy now in reserve are to bo broken up. 'lhey are the destroyers Parramatta, Yarra, Warrego and Swan and the former depot ship Penguin. Each of theso ships has now been classed as obsolete and the decision to scrap them has been hastened by the necessity for departmental economy. Each vessel has a fine war record.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20375, 2 October 1929, Page 11
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