ELECTRIC MINE LAYER
NEW BRITISH SHIP FIRST OF ITS KIND. Press Association—-By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 11. The ‘Daily Telegraph’ says the new electric minelayer, the Adventure, is the _ only warship propelled by Diesel engines, with electrical transmission. It is the first British ship designed expressly for mine-laying. During the war mines accounted for 23 per cent, of capital ships and cruisers, 67 per cent, of destroyers, and 27 per cent, of submarines. Altogether 500 British warships and auxiliary craft and 1,121,000 tons of merchant shipping were destroyed. The Adventure’s tonnage is 7,260, and she is 520 ft long. Her armament is restricted to four 4.7 in quickfirers, the weight saved enabling 1,000 mines to be carried, which is four times the capacity of any previous minelayer. Turbines of 40,000 horse-power drive the vessel at a speed of 27 J knots, but Diesel electric engines, making fourteen knots, will he nsed for cruising.
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Evening Star, Issue 19763, 13 January 1928, Page 7
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152ELECTRIC MINE LAYER Evening Star, Issue 19763, 13 January 1928, Page 7
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