IMPOSING SPECTACLE
BRITISH NAVAL REVIEW JUBILEE CEREMONY LONDON, Feb. 15. Mr. Hector Bywater, in the Daily Telegraph, says the naval review at Spitiiead on July 16 will be the most imposing spectacle of the kind for 21 years. It is likely to include nine battleships, two battle cruisers, three, aircraft carriers, 36 leaders and destroyers, ;many submarines and auxiliary craft, probably totalling 70 vessels. The total of officers and men is likely to exceed 24,000. If precedent is followed, the fleets will be moored in three lines, through which will steam the Royal yacht, which, after the review or the next day, will lead the combined fleets seaward for tactical exercises.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 5
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