NAVAL OFFICERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21868, 2 August 1934, Page 10

NAVAL OFFICERS

ARRIVAL BY RANGITANE SERVICE AT DEVONPORT New officers for the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy arrived at Auckland by the Rangitane yesterday. They are Captain L. Vaughan Morgan, who will relieve Captain C. Sinclair Thomson as second naval member of the Naval Board in Wellington; Mr, E. F. S. Fisher,, naval stores officer; and Mr. G. McCloghrie, a member of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors. The two last-named will be attached to the Devonport Naval Base for four years. Captain Morgan has visited New Zealand previously. He was flag lieutenant in H.M.S. New Zealand during her cruise to the. Dominion in 1919. He has since been engaged chiefly in signal £ndl staff duties and was recently executive officer of H.M.S. Cako in the Mediteranean Fleet. Hjs appointment to New Zealand, is for two years. CaptainoMorgan left for Wellington last nights" ' Mr. Fisher will be in charge of stores at the Devonport Naval Base, a post which will assume considerable importance when the Government's plan for expanding naval activities takes definite shape. He has previously served isi South Africa and Ceylon. Mr. McCloghrie will be in charge of engineering, constructional and refitting activities at the base. The Royal Corp* of Naval Constructors, to which Mr. McCloghrie belongs,, is responsible for designing and building most of the ships of the Royal! Navy. Mr. McCloghrie has lately b«en engaged on submarine designing, but before that he> was associated with the building of two of the latest class oi: sloops, sister ships to H.M.S. Leifch,, which will arrive on the New Zealand station in October. He tsaid the new sloops were an improvement on ships oi: the Rochester class, .which had proved! highly successful. Members of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors are given experience afloat from tiime to time. Mr. McCloghrie served in H.M.S. New Zealmi! during the war and was. present at the' Battle of Jutland.