The Australian destroyers Parramatta, I'arra, Warrego, and Swan, and the depot ship Penguin (the old cruiser Encounter), are to be scrapped. All these ships are Obsolete, and the decision to break them up was hastened by the noeds of departmental economy.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17081, 14 October 1929, Page 5
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