MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN
DEPARTURE FOR AUSTRALIA (Official wireless.) * (Received Aug. 13th, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 12. The Prime Minister, Mr Neville Chamberlain, received the Marquis of Lothian, Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, prior to his departure for Australia. DEFENCE OF BRITAIN SUBMARINE DEPOT SHIP A SUCCESSFUL LAUNCHING (omclal Wireless) (Received August 13, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, August 12 The submarine depot ship, H.M.5. ! Forth, built by the John Brown Company at Clydebank, at a cost of up- • proximately £2,000,111, was success- j fully launched. The Forth, which will be used ..s a floating workshop for submarines, is of 9000 tons standard displacement, with an overall length of 530 feet.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20576, 13 August 1938, Page 7
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