ANSWER TO THE AIR
: The first of six new 'high-powered ; motor' torpedo boats which British experts assert are likely to revolutionise : naval warfare was handed over to the Admiralty in .Tune. The | craft, which was inspected by King Edward, is able to manoeuvre so deftly k that it is considered to be invulnerB able to air attack. It can speed at F more than forty miles an hour. Carrying a crew of ten, the vessel is equipped.with two torpedoes, which may be fired by radio, and light gun k armament. Eighteen of the boats, it 1' is said, can be-built at. T.hi? pnst. of tine
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 21, 24 July 1936, Page 6
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105ANSWER TO THE AIR Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 21, 24 July 1936, Page 6
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