MISSING TORPEDO FOUND

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1934, Page 5

MISSING TORPEDO FOUND

FLOATING PEACEFULLY ON WAVES

RECOVERY IN HAURAKI GULF.

By Telegraph—Press Association.

Auckland, Last Night. A torpedo wliich was fired from the warship Dunedin, the flagship of RearAdmiral F. Burges Watson, during exercises in the Hauraki Gulf" on Wednesday went astray after the occasional habit of its kind and was not recovered until this morning. Torpedoes are valued at over £2OOO and owing to the early departure of the Dunedin for Australia the early recovery o.f the lost projectile was a matter of considerable importance. In company with the other ships of the division, the Diomede, the Laburnum and the Admiralty trawler Wakakura, the Dunedin went out into the Gulf last Monday for a second period of gunnery exercises. During the final exercises yesterday the two cruisers took part in a combined torpedo attack in which 12 torpedoes were fired at a moving target. After the attack the cruisers set out to retrieve the torpedoes but one fired from the Dunedin could not be found.

Wqrd was received this morning from a seaplane that the truant had been sighted floating peacefully on the surface near the Little Barrier Island. Sweeping operations immediately ceased. The cruisers will leave Auckland together on Monday for Sydney, where they are due on Friday. Sailing from Sydney on October 6, they will be at Hobart from October 8 to October 16 and will then act with the ships of the Royal Australian Navy as a Royal escort to Prince Henry.