H.M.S. CHATHAM.
EARLY DEPARTURE FOR COLOMBO. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The warship Chatham, with the band playing, left, here this morning en route for Auckland, whence she will leave on May 27 for Colombo to replace the .Southampton ns flagship of the East Indies station. The Southampton is going Home for boiler repairs, and will lie absent from the station for about 12 months, whon'shc returns to relieve the Chatham. The latter will go Home. The Chatham’s ratings going Home from New Zealand will be transferred to the Southampton at Colombo. About 70 will leave by the Ituahinc, sailing from Wellington on May 15.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19240507.2.32
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16424, 7 May 1924, Page 5
Word Count
106H.M.S. CHATHAM. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16424, 7 May 1924, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.