FAMOUS WARSHIP

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 7

FAMOUS WARSHIP

APPEAL FOR PRESERVATION COAL BbKN IN G * TIG Eli ” DEFENCE OF STOKER’S ART •SHOULD BE KEPT ALIVE ” (Aust and N.Z. Cable) London. April fl Admiral Sir Henry Polly, w ho commanded the Tiger from 1914 to 1916. makes a striking pica thal the Admiralty shouVl not scrap I.lio Tiger, but keep her as a training ship, be- ; ng !ln* last, big coal-burning warship, lie says: “The art of handling coal should l>e kept alive in the Navy, as it is most desirable that British fuel he used, and it is unsafe to keep all our eggs in a foreign basket, as would be the case if vve relied on for elgn oil fuel.” Admiral Polly considers that the Tige is still the most all-round ellicient ship ever built. THE .SHIP The Tiger - , u baitlo-eruiser of 28,900 tons, was launched in 1913, and is to be scrapped in 1935 under the te:ms of the Washington Treaty. Her principal armament consists of eight 13in. guns and twelve vim. guns, vliilc her speed is 30 knots. At Jutland the Tiger was one of Si.* David Beatty's squadron. rrrrr.