LIFE ON TARGET CENTURION
PRACTICE OR ATLANTIC FLEET. By Telegw-Hi—Press-. Assn.—Ctop-yright. Times Cables. e,. London, Oct. 2. The Navy’s most- uncomfortable job must be that of the - crew of the target ship Centurion, saysA a naval correspondent, who is attending the Atlantic fleet manoeuvres. It is almost a daily round of placing theirt belongings behind armour, abandoning the ship and watching her being riddled mercilessly, and then recovering their possessions and repairing the damage. To-day the Centurion was pounded by the battle-cruisers. Renown, Repulse and Tiger and bombed- by aircraft. She was then finally subjected, at close range, to a night attack by H.M.S. Nelson which, steaming’ without lights, sighted the Centurion by searchlights at a distance of 2060 yards. The Nelsons Oin. shells threw up a. fountain of spray and showers of sparks as they struck the armoured hull. Funnels and superstructure were thereafter destroyed. H.M.S. Shikari, whose wireless operates the Centurion, switched on the lights and the Centurion’s crew returned to make the best of their much battered quarters.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1929, Page 15
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