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TRAINING AT SEA ACHILLES LEAVES FOR SOUTH On a brief Dominion cruise prior to leaving for England for periodical refitting" H.M.S. Achilles left Auckland on Saturday morning for Lyttelton, Dunedin and Wellington. Twelve ratings of the Auckland Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve joined the vessel for a short course of training at sea. She will return to Auckland in about three weeks' timo and will sail for England early in December. The two Imperial escort vessels, the Loith and the Wellington, and the mine-sweeper Wakakura, sailed on Saturday afternoon for a week's combined minesweeping exercises in the Hauraki Gulf. Two officers and about 40 ratings of the Volunteer Reserve, some of whom were from southern centres, embarked in the escort vessels.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23146, 19 September 1938, Page 13
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