IMPERIAL NAVY
NEW BATTLESHIPS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 25. Instead of building two more Dreadnoughts and two big armored cruisers, the Government intend to bnUd three Dreadnoughts—one at Portsmouth, another at Devonport, and the third at a private yard. The vessels will have a speed of 21 knots, and will be able to cross and recross the Atlantic without recoaling. They will bo able to pass through the Suez Canal [The Dreadnought tpye is approved by most eminent seamen. Admiral Dewey, in his evidence before the Naval Committee of the United States House of Representatives, advocated; among other vessels, the construction of two battleships of the’ Dreadnought pattern. More cruisers, he thought, were not needed.]
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Evening Star, Issue 12875, 26 July 1906, Page 6
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116IMPERIAL NAVY Evening Star, Issue 12875, 26 July 1906, Page 6
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