AN AUSTRALIAN DEPOT SHIP.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 110, 15 June 1914, Page 5

AN AUSTRALIAN DEPOT SHIP.

One of the most interesting contracts which lias come the way of Clyde builders for a good many years is announced (says the "Shipping Summary"). A submarine depot ship for the Australian Government is, it is stated, to be built at Clydebank. Nothing is said about the design of the vessel, or her size or speed; but she will doubtless incorporate a considerable number of features new to Clyde practice. No depot ship of exactly the same kind has yet been built on the river, though within recent years two naval "auxiliaries" of interesting types have been constructed. Thus there was launched in April, 1912, the survey ship Endeavour, which was designed "for surveying the navigable waters of the world"—a rather large order —and in September of the same year there was launched the destroyer depot ship Woolwich. The Clydebank vessel will necessarily be different from these, different even from Woolwich.