H.M.S. WARSPITE
COSTLY RECONSTRUCTION WORK (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, October 6. (Received Octqber 7, at noon.) The battleship Warspite, which is shortly taking up her duties as the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, left Portsmouth Dockyard for Spithead for further trials. The Warspite, whose refitting cost nearly £2,700,000, and has taken nearly three years, has been equipped with entirely now machinery, extra armour protection, additional anti-aircraft guns, and four seaplanes, with a hangar. The layout of the bridges, funnels, and masts has been entirely altered*
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Evening Star, Issue 22773, 7 October 1937, Page 13
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