NEW ESCORT VESSEL
AUCKLAND AS NAME APPROVAL BY, ADMIRALTY] SHIP BEING BUILT (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty have assigned to a new escort vessel being built for the New Zealand station the name H.M.S. Auckland. The ship is being built under the 1930 ptogramme and will be completed next year and will relieve H.M.S. Leith. This information has been received from the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, by the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, who made the suggestion through the Government that the warship should be named Auckland.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19453, 12 October 1937, Page 6
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96NEW ESCORT VESSEL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19453, 12 October 1937, Page 6
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