Auckland Weekly News dated 3-11-1910.
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19101103-01-02
Auckland Weekly News dated 24-3-1910.
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19100324-12-04
Auckland Weekly News dated 24-3-1910.
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19100324-12-02
River-class destroyer. Laid down by Fairfield Shipbuilding&Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan, Glasgow, Scotland on 17 March 1909, launched by Mrs. Asquith, wife of the British Prime Minster on 9 February 1910, commissioned on 10 September 1910, decommissioned on 20 April 1928, handed over to the Cockatoo Dockyard to be dismantled, used as an accommodation hulk, sold to be broken up but sunkon the Hawkesbury River. Bow and stern sections became statues.
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