ANOTHER DREADNOUGHT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 696, 22 December 1909, Page 7

ANOTHER DREADNOUGHT.

THAMES IRONWORKS COMPANY, TWO TEARS' GUARANTEE: NOT GIVEN. .(By ;Telesraph. r Press Associatloa.-CopyrlßhU ;.-■■■ ; '.V. : ';■-■': ,■.'•: .London, December SO. - ..The-.Admiralty; has.accepted the tender of the Thames, ironworks Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, for" a .Dreadnought.;. The Company was asked to provide. ,£BO,OOO as a guarantee that it would completo the work by 1512, ; but this the directors were unwilling to give. '■'.■■..' . -'' ;:/: ; .", ' ; .. •- .'■ ■ -.>■ .;■;;■■ orion and ' lion., ;:. ; DETAILS OF LATEST \ DREADNOUGHTS .Some details—presumably, non-official—of the latest British ;sea-ihohsters, tho ■.Dreadnoughtbattleship Orion arid the Dreadnought-cruiser Lion, are published in ' the "Daily Mail" of November .13.' '.',,..:...:.- :. The following (according to the "Mail")' are the. leading particulars of the Orion compared with those of the original Drendiipught: ..' V' ,■ V; "'• ' ! Orion. Dreadnought. Length,.,feet :.....„.; 515 ....,;.■ "V 490 . Beanijifeet ;......'....; ,-'■ ' -.«5J ; .....; ■/.-■ . . 82 Displacement,; tons 22,500*....... /.':■ 17,000 Horse-p0wer.....i..'..'.. 27,000. ...;..:. 21,000 Boilers ...;.;i.'..;..'....... 18.......' .■lβ''.. Speed, knots ....'.;...... ''21"......'. ■ 21}' Guns .:........... ;.-.. X 12in. ...... X 12in. ■ y; ; . ;■:;;;■;.;, , ...;.. xxyii3in:;. The Orion's armour will be. one inch thicker at_ the thickest than the Dreadnought' 6; being 12in. against;llin., and:the bolt will protect the whole c'entre'of.the sbjp.'for JOOft.; ; . .'■-. A Ten Big-Gun Broadside.'; ■;• ":)'. ' .The: disposition, of • the. 12in.,-.guns .in;, the Orion will differ radically from that in . tho Dreadnought. '■; All the guns will be .'placed in the. centre line '61: the ship; '■; so that, teu 12in. weapons,; 'instead :of...eight :'. as in tho Dreadnought, will 1 fire on either, broadside. The Orion's 12in. gnhs will also b6. : of :50 calibres (i.e., fifty. times 12in; in length), whereas ?the -'.Dreadnought's . are;.'..only '".45 calibres lone.: >There will .be only one; mast.,.'. : Three- ; of the "supplementary" Dreadnoughts will be :of the same type, ,size, and armament. '•'■;. The report that the. new ships 1 would bo armed with.'l3,sin. and GinJ guns is thus.apparently'anfonnded. /■'.., -.;:■.. :'. The.new'ariiioured 'cruiser Lion,; whiph 'is »bout to ba. laid "down at Davonport, will be the,largest warship yet begun.for..any navy. : She will he ,700 ft., long and SGift. , in" beam, and will displace. 26,350, tons.- -.Thr largest ships as yet ordered by: any foreign untion are the; two .United ,: States. battleships /of. the. Wyoming class,' which displace each 20,000 -tons. i-tremendVs: Speed-Power.-; ;::;;: : ;j; u.Tlie'Lion's engines-will develop' 70,000'hqrsepower, .or, 2,000 : more than-the engines of' the Lusita'nia ,and Maiiretania, and will drive - her at ■ a speed: of twenty-eight kijots'.,.She- will' tliii3.be the fastest.large shin in existence and the; most powerfully',engined,!;with the eice'p-. tioh >of :, ; t;he;; two'.mo'nstor German :cruisers'. G and,:H,. which are understood to ■have, engines of' , 70,000'.horse-power. ; '..-■■■■'"!■,;.-; i ; ■:,.' .-.The»fourth of-7 the. supplementary Dread-, noughts ;will .'probably be'of theeame size.and. •typo as tho'Lion. , , v. ::■ ;' ' : ',: : ;■ ':'\