CRUISERS RETURNING
LEANDER AND ACHILLES LEAVE FROM WELLINGTON SPEED TRIAL ON THE COAST [BT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] WELLINGTON, Thursday After a stay of seven days at Welling the two cruisers of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy left to-day on their return to the Deronport naval base at Auckland, from which they have been absent several weeks on a southern cruise. H.M.S. Leander left port at 8.40 a.m. and H.M.S. Achilles at 4.45 p.m. On her way up the east coast tomorrow moraine: the Achilles, which was docked recently at Auckland for her annual refit, will carry out her half-yearly full power steaming trial, an evolution which will last about four hours. With her six water tube boilers under steam the Achilles will work up to her full power, at which she will steam for two hours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22896, 26 November 1937, Page 10
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