Royal Naval Cruise

Under the command of Vice Admiral Sir Frederick L. Field, a special service squadron of the Royal Navy composed of the battle cruisers Hood and Repulse and the light cruisers Delhi, Dauntless, Dragon and Danae, sailed from Plymouth for a trip around the world that is to last 307 days. The object of the trip was said to be to show the ships in some of the chief ports of the Commonwealth.

The route to be followed: Sierra Leone, Cape Town, where Christmas will be spent. Then the squadron will proceed to India, Sinapore, Australia and back north to Honolulu for Whitsuntide. After this the squadron will steam to Esquimalt, Vancouver and then south to San Francisco for Independence Day. This over, the Hood and Resolute will return via the Panama Canal to Plymouth, but the light cruisers will go to Callao, Peru, there to take place in the centenary celebration of the Peruvian Independence Day,* after which they will follow their big sisters home through the Panama Canal.

*Peru issued its Declaration of Independence on July 28, 1821, but did not succeed in shaking off the Spanish yoke until 1824.