NAVAL STRENGTH
GREAT BRITISH REDUCTION. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, May 6. Admiral Hyde’s striking of his flag at Devonport donated the passing of the Third Battle Squadron under the London Naval Treaty. H.M.S. Iron Duke will be disarmed, but retained for non-combatant duties, and H.M.S. Marlborough will be sunk by gunfire by the Atlantic Fleet. H.M.S. Benbow and H.M.S. Emperor of India will be broken up. Their withdrawal, with H.M.S. Tiger, leaves the Navy without a single coal-burning ship of importance, says H. Bywater, in the “Daily Telegraph.” “Our armoured ships, include three battle cruisers, mounting a total of 118 guns of sixteen and fifteen-inch calibre. The British fleet has been reduced in twelve years in size of armament by exactly twothirds. Needless to say, there has been no such proportionate reductions in any other Navy in the same period.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1931, Page 7
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