NEW DESTROYERS.
ORDERS PLACED BY THE ADMIRALTY. By Tolegraph.-~Press Association.— Copyright. (Received September 13, 8.35 a.m.) ' LONDON, 12th September. The newspaper Engineering states that the Admiralty has placed orders for twgnty torpedo-boat destroyers, to have a speed of twenty-nine knots an hour. Their construction will enable them to keep the sea in all Avealhers. Seventeen of tho boats will be fitted ■with Parsons' turbines, and three with Curtis's turbines.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1909, Page 7
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69NEW DESTROYERS. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1909, Page 7
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