SPEED IN BATTLESHIPS.
If the statements in America regarding the design of the Nelson and Rodney can be accepted, these ships will | mark a return in speed to that which was aimed at in the "Dreadnought" battleships up to the Queen Elizabeth, viz., 21 knots (says the "Army and Navy Gazette.") The advance to 25 knots for a fast battle division which was made just before the war has not been copied elswhere, and in the Royal Sovereign and her sisters, although the designed speed was 23 knots, the adoption of bulges has reduced the rate to 22. During the discussion in America recently as to relative naval strengths, it has been asserted that United States battleships are about two knots slower than the British—rather a foolish statement to make without qualification and a comparison of actual types. But a reply to the criticism declares that th« American Government purposely contented itself with a slower rate because its naval architects believed it more advantageous to put weight into armour and guns than into engine-power.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 7
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