The Archive · 1930

PEMBROKE DOCKYARD'S NEW ROLE

Lonidon, Apr. 6.

Pembroke Dockyard has been taken over from the Admiralty by the Air Ministry and will be used as a base for flying boats and seaplanes.

The principal stations for these. craft at present are Felixstowe, Calshot and Lee-on-Seton Pembroke Dockyard, which owed its foundation to Lord Nelson, was regularly used by the Navy as a building and repairing yard until few years ago, when it was closed for reasons of economy—{Wireless through Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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