BRITISH DREADNOUGHTS.
YET BIGGER VESSELS. TO CARRY 13.25 GUNS. hOXDOX, October 30. Tta ''Daily Mail" r-ajs the Admiralty jintends to begin in March, lOCS. the. conj atruction of larger ships tban the Dreadnought, and they arc each to receive : eight monster guns of n. new type, and of 'l3{-rneh calibre, weighing So tons, as i against the 12-inch guns o* the DreadI nought. i [The 12-inch gun. although the largest [carried on the Dreadnought, is by no i means the heaviest weapon found on British battleships, the 13.3 jjun figuring lin two obsolescent classes—those of the [Royal Sovereign (1889 estimates) and [the Xile (one of the two oldest battlejships on the fighting list). The new 'gun will not, however, represent a mere ' return to an abandoned type, for the new J13.2.) weapon will be IS tons heavier i than its 13.3 predecessors, and will no i doubt present other new features.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 254, 31 October 1906, Page 5
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151BRITISH DREADNOUGHTS. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 254, 31 October 1906, Page 5
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