H.M.S. REPULSE REBUILT
t Carries Four Seaplanes ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCE London, May 14. The "Sun-Herald” agency says that the battle-cruiser Repulse, which has been reconstructed after 3) years at a cost of £1,400,000, embodies more air power and a greater degree of antiaircraft defence than any other vessel in the British Navy. Repulse is the first of Britain’s capital units to be rebuilt in accordance with up-to-date principles. The superstructure abaft the second funnel has been removed for 50 feet in order to accommodate an aircraft catapult extending the full width of the deck and a lofty hangar has been built on either side of tlie deck. H.M.S. Repulse will leave for the Mediterranean on June 8, carrying four seaplanes, two in the hangars and two on deck. Hitherto no British warship has carried more than two seaplanes. H.M.S. Renown is returning to Portsmouth for similar refitting.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 196, 16 May 1936, Page 11
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