DUKE & DUCHESS OF YORK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 11

DUKE & DUCHESS OF YORK

H.M.S. RENOWN FOR TOUR LONDON, August 12. Although his Mayesty’s ship Renown appears at first- glance to lie far from ready to take Royal voyagers to Australia, and New Zealand, there is no doubt that her officers and crew have for some little time felt fairly sure that the battle-cruiser which look the Prince of Wales round (ho world would he chosen to convey (lie Duke and Duchess of York to New Zealand and Australia. Much more lightly armoured than the Repulse, she is iar better suited for tropical seas, and the decision that she is to go out m mid-January has given much satisfaction to her personnel! 1 Captain N. A. Sullivan is in command, and it- is anticipated that a. couple ot months will sullied to get her ready when she returns from the north, wdiere she is to take part- m exercises with llie Atlantic Elect, for which purpose she commissions on September 2. At, present she is alongside the North Railway Jetty of Portsmouth Dockyard, looking rather the worse for wear, and with blotches of dockyard red on her somewhat dirty greyish white, but a week or two in the painters’ hands will alter all that, No doubt the accommodation for the- Duke and Duchess will he similar to that- for the Prince, but there will be no racquets court, The quarterdeck will make an excellent ballroom if required, and I here are line spacious cabins. The Renown is a comfortablelooking ship altogether, and officers and crew are looking forward with pleasure to the voyage, which wifi follow a brief overhaul ' and accelerated Christmas leave.