NEW DREADNOUGHT.
BIGGER AND MORE POWERFUL. HEAVIER CUNS. DT TELEGRAPH —r It ESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. (Rcc. April 5, 4.15 p.m.)' tendon, April 4. Tho kocl of the Vanguard, the seventh battleship of • the Dreadnought class, has been laid' 'i at Barrow. Sho will carry 13.5 inch guns.<■ ■! • . A* HEAVIER BROADSIDE. •Tho new battleships (says tho "Express") are. to embody many improvements oil tlie Dreadnought. They will not carry so tnr.ny heavy Runs as the earlioi - ship, but the weapons will ,be of a larger calibre than the Dreadnought's weapons—l3.6-inch as compared with 12-ineh —and tliey. will firo a shot weighing 12501b. against the smaller gun's 8501b. At the samo time a secondary battery of medium 'quick-firing guns will be added, a feature which .is .. entirely missing in the Dreadnought. . lieutenant Domvile, in the cssa.v which won the gold medal of,tho Royal United Servico Institution, advocated as an "ideal" ship one carrying eight 12-inch and sixteen G-incli guns, and it is not unlikely , that this plan will bo followed so far as numbers are concerned. In that case, tho new vessels would have a broadside fire of 83001b. 1 , against the Dreadnought's GSOOIb.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 165, 6 April 1908, Page 7
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192NEW DREADNOUGHT. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 165, 6 April 1908, Page 7
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