interesting diversity of types of ships which see service in these waters One might be led to believe that My Lords of the Admiralty have special solicitude for. this station and ondeavour {o produce constant surprises. H.M.S. Cumberland will, be out here shortly with half a deck cut away and a seaplane hangar installed among other innovations which will distinguish her from the vestals of her class. Another interesting vessel ordered to this station is H.MS.
Danae, a cruiser which will replace HAMS. Kent, which is next on the list, for overhaul. As one of the "D" class, she was completed in 1916 and is therefore two years over the obsolescence period, but she has been modernized and overhauled and her Uials have proved satistactory—satis factory enough for service on this station. She is one of the few vessels which have been saved from the scrapheop but, is still capable of some years of useful service. Vessels of her type have been seen here before, Despatch, Delhi and Durban having served on this station and Danae therefore has a distinct family connection with the British naval buoys in the Whangpoo. Efforts to save the four cruisers of the Hawkins class unfortunately failed otherwise these familiar vessels in new guise would bbe seen on the China coast,
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