TORPEDO FOUND

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18502, 14 September 1934, Page 11

TORPEDO FOUND

SQST PROM H.M.S. DUNEDIN

Tjsed DURING EXERCISES

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, last night

torpedo which was fired from the waiahip Dunedin, the flagship of RearAdmiral Burges Watson, during exergStes in the Hauraki Gulf on Wednesday,. went astray after an occasional lisibit of its kind and‘was' not recovered Until this morning. ;'/I’orpedoes are valued at over £2CCO ami, owing to the early departure of tlfo Du nod ill for Australia, early recovery of-'tho lost projectile was a matter of considerable importance. 'lll company with other ships of tile, division, the Diomede ami Laburnum and the 'Admiralty trawler Wakakura, the Bijnediu Went out into the gulf last Itfohdny for a. second period of gunnery exercises. During the final exercises ■jm&terday, the two cruisers took part % ft combined torpedo attack, in which .If? torpedoes were fired at a. moving lurgot. (“After the attack tin 1 cruisers set out SArelrieVe the torpedoes, Imt one fired ffOin tfie Dunedin could not he found. Word was received this morning from a. that the truant had been sight <Td flouting peacefully on the snrlare near-the Little Barrier Island. Sweeping operations immediately ceased.

r&The • cruisers leave Auckland togeflier >«a Monday for Sydney, arriving next (foiling from Sydney on October plKrtiiev will lie at. Hobart. from Oetolier 16, and will I hen ail with'the ships Australian .Savy as a Royal ’■•fiSr&ft to ■ Prince Tfenry.