NEW WARSHIPS
BRITAIN’S PEACE TIME RECORD FORTY-FIVE VESSELS BUILDING Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 16. Mr Hector Bywater, in the ‘ Daily Telegraph,’ says that Britain in 1939 will launch 45 new warships with a total tonnage of 355,705, a peace-time record—namely, five battleships, three aircraft carriers, five large cruisers, seven small cruisers, eleven destroyers, nine submarines, five sloops, and a considerable number of auxiliary craft, including boom defence vessels, motor torpedo boats, depot ships, and tugs. The battleships, each of 35.0UG tons, and a speed of 30 knots, will be the largest, most strongly armoured, and fastest Britain has ever built. Each will carry 10 14in guns of a new and most powerful type. The aircraft carriers will each be of 23,000 tons. The large cruisers will be of 8,000 tons, with a speed of 33 knots. They will mount 12 6in guns. The smaller cruisers will be of 5,450 tons, with a speed of 33 knots. Their main armament will consist of 10 5.2 in guns, firing 14 rounds a minute. The submarines will all be oceangoing. Tbo sloops will mostly bo escort vessels, heavily armed with anti-aircraft guns,
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Evening Star, Issue 23143, 17 December 1938, Page 17
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190NEW WARSHIPS Evening Star, Issue 23143, 17 December 1938, Page 17
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