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Tuesday 17 October 2017

British HMS sloop Wellington visited the Dutch East Indies in 1935

Thames, London, England 2008

An item reported that the British HMS sloop Wellington visited the Dutch East Indies harbours Tandjong Priok between 9-11 April 1935 and Benoa between 14-16 April 1935.(1)

Source
Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeemacht 1934-1935. 

Note
1. Grimsby-class sloop, building ordered on 1 May 1933, laid down at Nay Yard Devonport, England on 25 September 1933, launched on 29 May 1934, commissioned on 24 January 1935, stricken in 1947, into a floating livery hall and still existing.