Monday 7th April 1924

The Special Service Squadron has entered yet another harbour in its Empire  cruise of more than 30,000 miles.   The stately ships came in with the same lack of display and of ceremony that marked the day when they quietly slipped their moorings and entered upon their long journey.  It was about 8 a.m. when under a dull grey, threatening sky they were first sighted from the Naval College miles out on a turbulent sea. They  looked like vast phantom shape as they slipped past George's Head towards Bowen Island. They were furrowing in a rough sea, beating up against headlands, and tossing white spray high up.  Then they gradually disappeared from view behind Bowen Island before entering the harbour.  It was not a difficult entry for they had a doorway, so to spéak, to the harbour of about two miles wide.  For the few people who witnessed the squadron's entry it was an impressive spectacle