NEW DESTROYER LAUNCHED
ALMOST EQUIVALENT TO CRUISER
RADIUS WITHOUT REFUELLING.
British Wireless. Rugby, Sept. 10. Mrs. Astley Rushton, wife of ViceAdmiral Astley Rushton, commander of the reserve fleet at Portsmouth, to-day performed the naming ceremony at the launching of the destroyer Fury from the shipyard at East Cowes, Isle of Wight. The vice-admiral stated that the Fury had a cruising radius of about 6000 miles without refuelling, so that she was virtually a cruiser.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1934, Page 5
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