AUSTRALIAN NAVY
VESSELS BEING BUILT NEW CRUISER SYDNEY SYDNEY, May 17 The historic nanio of the cruiser Sydney, the first Australian warship to engage in a sea battle, will bo perpetuated in a new cruiser which the Federal Government has decided to add to the I?oval Australian Navy. The Phaeton, which will be completed in August, 1935, will be taken over from the British Government and renamed the Sydney. The Phaeton is to replace the Brisbane, which must be scrapped by the end of 19.36. The name of the new sloop now being built at Cockatoo dockyard will be the Yarra.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21803, 18 May 1934, Page 9
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101AUSTRALIAN NAVY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21803, 18 May 1934, Page 9
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