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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue XXI, 21 May 1904, Page 22

Arrangements have been completed by the New South NA ales Government (says an exchange) for the warship Dart to act as tender to the training ship Sobraon. The Dart is well known on the Australian station as surveying ship. She will be loaned by the Admiralty to the New South Wales Government, and will be handed over in the course of a few days. Executive officers will be appointed, and the Dart will be manned chiefly by boys from the Sobraon. It is intended to make periodica! trips oil the coast with the lads, the object being to afford them the necessary training to -fit them for the mercantile marine. The Dart was originally an English gentleman’s yacht, and was purchased by the Admiralty for surveying purposes. She is a schooner-rigged vessel of 470 tons.