HYBRID CRUISERS.
SCRAP WASHINGTON TYPE. (Received 1.30 p.im.) LONDON. March 18. The "Daily Telegraph"'' understands that, irrespective of the treaty obligations, no more of the Washington type of cruisers like the Austmlia and the Canberra will be constructed for the British Navy. "They constitute a hybrid type, born of political expediency. They have been tried, found wanting and condemned by the hlighest naval opinion. They reproduce on an exaggerated scale all the defects <of our early battle cruisers, three of which blew up at Jutland under fire from more lightly armed ships." The paper adds that there is no question of scrapping the present 10,000-ton cruisers, but the -type is dead. There arc encouraging signs that the Admiralty at last lias broh en from the artificial standards established by the Washington Treaty and is now seeking to build ships adapted to "the needs of the Empire.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 7
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