NEW CRUISER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22401, 23 April 1936, Page 12

NEW CRUISER

ACHILLES' OFFICERS dominion service REPLACING H.M.S. DIOMEDE The cruiser Achilles, which is to replaco H.M.S. Diomcde on the New Zealand station, lias been recommissioned at Chatlinm with the crew of the Dioniede. The Achilles will be in eomihaml of Captain I. G. Glennie, who attended the 1985 course at the Imperial Defence College, while Commander S. H. Pa ton, from the plans Division of the* Admiralty, will bo the executive officer. The Achilles will be Captain Glennie's first ship since his promotion to the rank of captain in 1933. He was at Dartmouth Royal Naval College in 1924. and divisional commander in the 4th destroyer flotilla in the Mediterranean in 1931-2. Since his promotion he has done a considerable amount of study. In addition to the year at tho Imperial Defence College, he has recently completed the senior officers' technical course.

Commander Paton and other officers have been lent to the New Zealand Division of the ltoyal Navy for three years. These officers include LieutenantCommander 1). L. Johnston (gunnery), who lias been serving in H.M.S. Excellent; Lieutenant-Commander F. B. Lloyd (navigator), from H.M.S. Ramillies; and Lieutenant-Commander G. P. M. Robertson, who has been serving in the Achilles since last August, and was formerly on tho stafT at Devonport Barracks. The exchange of H.M.+S. Dunedin. flagship of Commodore the Hon. E. P. Drummond, officer commanding tho New Zealand Division, for H.M.S. Leander, which is to come out to New Zealand shortly after the Achilles, will probably not mean a change of command, but only a transfer of pendant, wrote the London correspondent of the Herald on April 4, as the commodore lias been .on the New Zealand station ior only a year. Tho New Zealand members of the crew of the Dioniede, who were with the fleet at Aden for three and a-half months, all said they would be very glad to be back again in New Zealand waters.