'VEST-POCKET CRUISERS'
NEW HARD-HITTING
DESTROYERS
(Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, October 23
The "Daily Mail" describes Britain's latest hard-hitting "attack" destroyers, knowns as the Lightning Class, details of which can now be published, as vest-pocket cruisers. The Lightnings, which are of 1920 tons, are a development of the Tribal Class. Their six 4.7-inch guns are mounted, cruiser fashion,* in three turrets. The vessels carry eight torpedo tubes, compared with four in the Tribal Class, and have a speed of 36£ knots. . .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 100, 24 October 1942, Page 7
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