A NEW DREADNOUGHT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2326, 7 December 1914, Page 5

A NEW DREADNOUGHT

BRITAIN BUYS CHILIAN SHIP , : .. i. (Reo. December 6, 4 p.m.)' London, December 5. The "Navy List" shows the addition of the battleship Canada and the light cruisers _ Cambrian and Wallaroo. The battleship Canada was the Ahnirauto Latorro, which was building for Chile. The Admiralty has christened the new flotilla leaders "Botha" and perary." . The Almirante is one of the largest and most powerful battleships ever built in Britain. She was launched on November 26, 1913, at the yards of Messrs. Armstrong, W.hitworth and Co. She was to be the first of two sister ships and was originally intended for delivery oarly in 1015. Her displacement is .28,000 tons, or 500 tons more than the British battleships of the. Queen Elizabeth class. In the matter of armament the Chilean authorities adopted tho general plan of the King George V and Orion class, substituting 14-inch guns for the 13.5-inch. The armament comprises ten 14-inch in five turrets on the keel-lino (all guns firing on the broadside and four ahead and astern), sixteen 6-inch, four 3-inch, two 12-poundcr, and four machine-guns, four submerged 21inch torpedo tubes. Protection, waterline, Din.,_ 6in. (at the ends), and 4in.; gun positions, 10-inch and 6-inch Krupp comentcd and Armstrong steel; deck, 4in. and 2in.; four shafts and scrows; 37,000 S.H.P.j speed, 23 knots; Yarrow water-tube boilers; Parsons turbines; normal coal supply 1200 tons, maximum 4000 tons: oil fuel, 500 tons; complement, 1000 men. The two battleships taken from Tt.iflsoy Rfc the bogimuus* of tho war and Asiinwwti

were of 27,600 and 23,000 tons displacement ; carrying fourteen 12-inch and ten 13.5 guns respectively; and with .speeds of 22 and 21 knots.