NAVAL CONSTRUCTION.
$ MANY SHIPS IN HAND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (B-cc. January G, 0.40 a.m.) ' London, January 5. The battleship to bo laii) down on January 1G will be named the King George the Fifth, not the Royal George, as previously announced. • • . ■ , Besides the Commonwealth's cruisers, Melbourne and Sydney, twelve others of the . town class are . built, building, or ordered, including one shortly to be put in hand at the Chatham yards, and> to bo named the Chatham. Two others will be built under private contract, and will be named the Dublin and Southampton.
Two Dreadnoughts of the Centurion class will be shortly building under private contract. They will bo named the Ajax and Audacious.
THE CENTURION TO BE LAID DOWN. ' London, January 4. The new Dreadnought. Centurion will bo begun at Devonport nest week. .
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1018, 6 January 1911, Page 5
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134NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1018, 6 January 1911, Page 5
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