INVINCIBLE'S GUNS.
MANY MINOR DEFECTS. FIRST LORD'S ADMISSIONS. LONDON, Febrnary 24. In the House of Commons to-day, replying to Lord Charles Beresford, Mr. McKenna (First Lord of the Admiralty) stated that the Dreadnought cruiser Invincible had fired her 12in guns on March 14, 1909, and had not since fired them until yesterday. Numerous minor defects were- discovered during the 1909 trials in the turret electricity plant, and alterations were ordered, but further defects developed. The Invincible could have fired four of her 12in guns effectively during the past year, and the other four at a considerably lower rate.
Lord Charles Beresford, in the course of a speech at Dartford, said that H_M.s. Invincible, 17,250 tons, which was commissioned in March, had never been able to fire her 12in. guns. If war threatened the Invincible would, he said, be ordered into dock and her crew transferred to another ship. Some days later Mr. R. MeKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated, in reply to a correspondent, that the allegations which Lord Charles Beresford made regarding the Invincible were nonsense. "The Invincible," Mr. McKenna added, "has fired, and can 'fire, her guns, and would be able to do so again if there was war."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 48, 25 February 1910, Page 5
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