I MORE AIR POWER FOR BRITISH NAVY. —H.M.S. Repulse, one of the lliree remaining battle j cruisers, leaving Portsmouth for service in the Mediterranean, after a reconstruction which has taken three and a | half years and cost nearly £1,400,000. In her new guise she embodies more air poiver and a greater degree of | anti-aircraft defence than any other vessel in the navy. A huge aircraft catapult extends the full width of the j ship, while on either side of the deck & lofty hangar has been built. She is carrying four seaplanes, two in the f • hangars and two on deck. j
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 11
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101I MORE AIR POWER FOR BRITISH NAVY.—H.M.S. Repulse, one of the lliree remaining battle j cruisers, leaving Portsmouth for service in the Mediterranean, after a reconstruction which has taken three and a | half years and cost nearly £1,400,000. In her new guise she embodies more air poiver and a greater degree of | anti-aircraft defence than any other vessel in the navy. A huge aircraft catapult extends the full width of the j ship, while on either side of the deck & lofty hangar has been built. She is carrying four seaplanes, two in the f • hangars and two on deck. j Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 11
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