COAL IN THE NAVY
LAST WARSHIP TO USE IT
PLEA TO SAVE H.M.S. TIGER
LONDON, 6th. April. Admiral Sir Henry Pelly, who commanded the Tiger from 1914 to 1916, makes a striking plea that the Admiralty should not scrap the Tiger, but keep her as a training ship, being the last big coal-burning warship. He says: "The art of handling coal should be kept alive in. the Navy, as it is most desirable that British fuel bo used, and it is unsafe to keep all our eggs in a foreign basket, as would be the case if wo relied on foreign oil fuel." Admiral Pelly considers that the Tiger is still the most all-round efficient ship ever built.
The Tiger, a battle-cruiser of 28,900 tons, was launched in 1913, and is to be scrapped in 1935 under the terms of the Washington Treaty. Her principal armament consists of eight 13-inch guns and twelve 6-inch guns, while her speed is 30 knots. At Jutland the Tiger was one of Sir David Beatty's squadron.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 82, 8 April 1931, Page 9
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172COAL IN THE NAVY Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 82, 8 April 1931, Page 9
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