WARSHIP RETURNING TO NEW ZEALAND
ACHILLES LEAVES SUEZ (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 31. The Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) announced this evening that H.M.S. Achilles, which left New Zealand on December 2 last for England to discharge the time-expired imperial section of officers and crew and take aboard the replacement personnel which New Zealand was not yet ready to provide, left Portsmouth on February 21 for Gibraltar where she was engaged in a month’s “working up” practice with the Mediterranean Squadron. In resumption of her voyage she left Suez on Thursday for New Zealand via Aden, Colombo and Singapore. The warship was due to arrive in Auckland on May 8.
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Southland Times, Issue 23782, 1 April 1939, Page 6
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