BRITISH NAVY
NEW CRUISER COMMISSIONED FOR ATLANTIC FLEET. (British Official Wireless.) Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, September 16. The new 10,000-ton cruiser Dorsetshire is being commissioned at Portsmouth to-day to replace the Frobisher in the second cruiser squadron of the Atlantic Fleet. All of the thirteen 10,000-ton cruisers allowed to Britain under the London Naval Treaty have now passed into the service. Of the same general design, they differ in detail. Seven , ships of the Kent class, in which are included the Australian cruisers Australia and Canberra, were designed for a speed of 31.5 knots, but they Lave exceeded this figure in service, while the remaining six, of the London and Dorsetshire classes, have a nominal speed of. 32i knots. All carry a main armament of eight Sin guns.
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Evening Star, Issue 20592, 18 September 1930, Page 11
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