SLOOP LABURNUM
NEW LEASE OF LIFE. [ Per ProSB Association I AUCKLAND, Feb. 5. Assigned for the scrap heap this year, the Imperial sloop Laburnum has been given a new lease of life. Instead of- going to Plymouth to be broken up, she will proceed from Auckland to Singapore, where she will be used as a drill ship for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. She will be replaced by the new sloop Wellington, a sister ship of the Leith now on the New Zealand station. The Laburnum has the distinction of being the, last of the independent commands in the British Navy to burn coal and wear sail.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 7
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107SLOOP LABURNUM Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 7
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