WORLD'S LARGEST CRUISER.
-jgST 'INVINCIBLE" LAUNCHED
EIGHT 12-rWCH GUNS.
(Received 5.35 a-m.)
LONDON, March 17. lOCS. Indomitable, the largest cruiser in the.jHirld} 'has been launched at Glas-
[lie Indomitable is one of three 17,250----ial sf calted cruisers—the others being flu Invincible and the Inflexible—belongjjgto the 1905 to 1906 class. The Inimitable B*s fe*™ built at the Fairfield CTrte-On tht Oyde, the Invincible is Imlding at Slswick, and the Inflexible is jjder construction at the Clydebank giJs. Full details of the vessels have jot teen disclosed, but it is known that Hey will be armed with no less than eight 12in. guns, and that they are extetatio- develop a speed of 25 knots. Salt the Dreadnought is to all earlier bttlesfiip£,- that the Invincible class of jnnoured cnriser is to all earlier armoured cruisers. In fact some of the latest jifliorife classify the larger vessels of ife-fiat as Battleships, Invincibles, and Craiseis.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 66, 18 March 1907, Page 5
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151WORLD'S LARGEST CRUISER. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 66, 18 March 1907, Page 5
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