FIFTY YEARS AGO
CRUISERS, FOR AUSTRALIA Australia had started the building of a navy 50 years ago. The following cablegram from London was published in the New Zealand Herald of November 18, 1889. ... "The first, of the -two Australian cruisers will be launched on the -o at the yards of Sir W. G. Armstrong Mitchell and Company. The ceremony of christening the vessel will be pe formed by Lady Samuel the wife of the Agent-General of New South Wales The second of the cruisers launched be christened by Lady Berry the jjite of the Agent-General for \ ictoria.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23507, 18 November 1939, Page 8
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