CRUISES BY WARSHIPS
NEW ZEALAND DIVISION VISIT TO AUSTRALIA ACHILLES AND LEANDER (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. So soon as the Christmas leave at present being enjoyed by ratings of the New Zealand division of the Royal Navy is finished, preparations will be set in train at the Devonport naval base for further cruises by the flagship H.M.S. Achilles, H.M.S. Leander, and the escort vessels H.M.S. Leith and H.M.S. Wellington. The two cruisers will shortly leave on a courtesy visit to Australian ports. One of the escort vessels is going to southern ports of New Zealand and the other is to sail for Fiji. At present all the ships of the division are in port, having come to Auckland for Christmas, but very shortly the base will again be comparatively deserted, with only the training and depot ship Philomel in port. In addition to the two cruisers and the two escort vessels, the mine sweeper Wakakura and the Admiralty survey ship Endeavour, are also occupying berths at the base, but next week three of the ships will be leaving. The Endeavour, commanded by Captain Wyatt, will probable leave on Tuesday to continue her marine survey work in the Firth of Thames, after coming over to the city side of the harbour at the end of the week for coaling. On Tuesday, H.M.S. Wellington, commanded by Commander Loriston-Clarke, will leave on ■(a cruise. On Thursday, January 6. H.M.S. Leith will leave on a cruise to the South Island, which will keep her away from Auckland until April. She will pay visits to Picton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Bluff, Stewart Island, West Coast Sounds, Westport. Nelson, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Akaroa. The Australian visit of two cruisers will not begin until January 20. They will .leave in company, but will separate on the way across the Tasman, H.M.S. Achilles going to Sydney and H.M.S. Leander to Melbourne. After these visits, both will go to Jervis Bay and then H.M.S. Achilles will visit Melbourne and H.M.S. Leander will go to Hobart. Before they return to New Zealand the vessels will make short cruises to the south and then return to Auckland on April 28.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19519, 29 December 1937, Page 14
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