She belongs to the Kent class of ships, and was launched on Marek 16, 1926. Being of the group of 10,000-ton treaty cruisers, she ce! forms to the stipulations of the Washington Treaty, and similar types of vessels are' to be seen in the American Pensacola, the Japanese Myoka, the French Suffren and the Italian Trieste, "Jane's Fighting Ships" gives her armament as follows: deck, where the ship's mascot, a baby tiger, resides in its cage. It is a most disarming, soft' young thing with huge paws, and sharp, /though as yet nicely behaved teeth, and an expression of innocence to counteract any of the natural fears attendant upon stroking its striped back.
The tiger came on board at Hongkong, when the Cumberland was there during the early part of the year. Captured near Hong-Kong, when two coolies surprised the mother tiger with another cub into flight, the little fellow who was left behind became then the property of a pair of hawkers about the streets of Hongkong. Its fate eventually, 'a3 one reflects, would have been too. horrible to conceive. But it was rescued from the eventuality, forttunately, in the nick of time.
'The commanding officer of the Cumberland, Capt. A. L. Snagge, Bought the' six weeks' old infant and took him on board the ship. Hongkong comment was inclined to be dolorous. Not even a ship could be expected to raise a tiger success fully. Tt was sure to die straightway. But it did not die. In fact, it prospered enormously under the
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