DUKE SEES “BATTLE”
AN IMPROMPTU ENCOUNTER. AUSTRALIAN SHIPS EXERCISE. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright From H.M.S. Sussex, at Sea. In moonlight steaming at 15 knots, the cruisers Canberra, Australia and Sussex fought a night battle against the Australian destroyers Stuart and Voyager. The cruisers picked up the destroyers at two miles range theoretically sinking both. The Duke of Gloucester witnessed the battle from the Sussex’s bridge and was tremendously interested and enthusiastic over the result of the encounter, which was entirely impromptu. All ratings manned the ships as though in actual battle. Every vessel was darkened and when the battle ended all of the vessels played searchlights on each other, creating an impressive effect in mid-ocean.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1934, Page 4
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