NEW MINE-LAYER.
MANY INTERESTING FEATURES: (Per Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, January 11. The “Daily Telegraph” says the newelectric mine-layer Adventure is the only warship propelled by Diesel engines with electrical transmission. It. f s also the first British ship designed expressly for mine-laying. During the war mines accounted for 23 per cent, or the capital ships and cruisers sunk, 57 per cent, of the destroyers, and 27 percent. of the submarines. Altogether 400 British warships and auxiliary craft and 1,121,000 tons of merchant shipping were destroyed. The Adventure is 7260 tons burden,, and 520 feet long, and her armament is restricted to 4.7 inch quickfirers, the • weight saved enabling IODO mines to becarried, which is four times the capacity of any previous mine-layer. Turbines of 40,000 horse power drive the ■ vessel at a speed of 27! knots, but Diesel electric engines making 14 knots ■ will be used 1 for cruising.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 79, 13 January 1928, Page 4
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