WONDER SHIPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 85, 11 April 1929, Page 9

WONDER SHIPS.

RODNEY AND NELSON.

Battleships With Bomb-Proof Decks. BRITAIN'S LATEST. ! (Australian and N" Z. Press Association.') I LONDON*. April 10. I New detail? of the battleship?- ' Xelson and Rodney have been ofik-i-. ally pubished. Among the features or tliese wonder ships are their steel decks. The-e form the heaviest horizontal protection ever fitted oil a ship, and will make them the | lirst bomb-proof vessels afloat. Another feature is that the armourplat in? on the hull and gun turrets is « »f ' Mich a thirknes-> a~. to be impenetrable under ordinary battle condition?. Thirdly, the ve»*els ha\e torpedo protection on a scale never previously attempted. The naval correspondent of the "Dail\ Telegraph"' says: For a time at least naval defence appears to have mastered attacks from aeroplane* and submarines. FRENCH NAVY i Plans For New Submarines And Cruisers. T G PROGRAMME. 1 " Tillies i 'al'lf- 1 LONDON". April 10. The Paris correspondent of the " 1 .mi >" >ay? new warships totalling ; :'o <>ii» ;nn- will be launched in French ! shipyards this month. They will include ia IU,OOO-ton cruiser of the Tourville type, which is to be named Foeh. This cruiser will be equipped with an aeroplane catapult. Also to be launched are two 1560-ton ocean-going submarines of a redoubtable type, of which France now has 24, either in commission or being built. Each submarine will have 10 torpedo tubes, one four-inch gun, and one smaller one. They will have a speed of IS knots ou the surface and 10 knots submerged.

Each submarine will carry a crew of four officers and 57 men.